Panorama La Roque Saint-Christophe and Vézère, Dordogne, France.
Panorama La Roque Saint-Christophe and Vézère, Dordogne, France.
The Roque Saint-Christophe is a large rock formation and archaeological site with rock shelters (abris sous-roche in French) at the river Vézère, near Peyzac-la-Moustier in the Dordogne in Aquitania, France.
The Dordogne, and the Vézère valley in particular, have been shaped by man for thousands of years.
The prehistoric men left traces are visible in this white cliff, La Roque Saint-Christophe.
The limestone cliff is a kilometre long and 80 metres high. Eroded by the river Vézère and frost over thousands of years, around a hundred rock shelters have been carved out of its aerial terraces.
These natural caves have been occupied by man since prehistoric times, then developed into a fort and a troglodytic city from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance.
Panorama La Roque Saint-Christophe and Vézère, Dordogne, France.
Panorama La Roque Saint-Christophe and Vézère, Dordogne, France.
The Roque Saint-Christophe is a large rock formation and archaeological site with rock shelters (abris sous-roche in French) at the river Vézère, near Peyzac-la-Moustier in the Dordogne in Aquitania, France.
The Dordogne, and the Vézère valley in particular, have been shaped by man for thousands of years.
The prehistoric men left traces are visible in this white cliff, La Roque Saint-Christophe.
The limestone cliff is a kilometre long and 80 metres high. Eroded by the river Vézère and frost over thousands of years, around a hundred rock shelters have been carved out of its aerial terraces.
These natural caves have been occupied by man since prehistoric times, then developed into a fort and a troglodytic city from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance.