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Arles, France
Van Gogh created over three hundred paintings there, many so iconic we know and revere them today, although he was not recognized in his own time.
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Arles
Just a short train ride from Montpellier is the town of Arles, in the south of France, where Vincent Van Gogh lived for a year. Artist Paul Gauguin joined him there for two months, a turbulent coha…
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May 23, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Marseille, Cosquer
Cosquer is a unique prehistoric painted cave in that it is underwater, about 37 meters (121 feet) below sea level.
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Marseille, Cosquer
I had been through Marseille decades ago while visiting French towns where Impressionist artists had painted (links below), but it was just a train connection. This time I had a day to wander and v…
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May 30, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Les Combarettes, Pech-Merle caves
How moving it was to hold up one’s hand, without actually touching, of course, to the hand of a prehistoric artist, probably the hand that created some of the art in this cave!
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Les Combarelles, Pech-Merle caves
The next two days, on this south of France journey, we ventured into two more natural caves that had been open to the air for thousands of years. Like Font-de-Gaume, the caves were preserved as muc…
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December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Chauvet, 200th post!
This is my 200th blog post. Thanks so much for coming along! It’s been a labor of love.
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Chauvet, 200th post!
Chauvet-Pont d’Arc in Ardèche, France, an enormous, stunning, prehistoric painted cave, is closed for preservation. Its replica, called Chauvet 2, opened to the public in 2015. The original cave is…
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January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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L'Aven d'Orgnac, Sarlat
This is an enormous natural cave with stalagtites and stalagmites, in pink, oranges, and reds, with fanciful shapes.
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L’Aven d’Orgnac, Sarlat
The painted caves I visited in the south of France did not, for the most part, exhibit the concretions usually seen in caves formed, and still forming, by water. It is thought that the lack of mois…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Lascaux
Having been sealed for thousands of years, the colors were vivid, brush strokes bold and strong.
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Lascaux
In 1940, four teenage boys and their dogs explored the grounds around the old Lascaux castle, in the Périgord region of France, looking for treasure. Robot, the dog, fell into a hole. They wer…
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December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Paléosite recreates the lifestyle of early Homo sapiens and their structures in an indoor and outdoor museum, with models of the enormous animals that lived at the time.
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Saintes, Saint-Césaire
The themes for this week-long tour across the south of France were Neanderthals, early humans, and prehistoric painted caves. As someone who has a degree in art and has studied art history, I signe…
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November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Bordeaux
My booking an extra day in Bordeaux had been an afterthought. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Place de la Bourse, Cité du Vin
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Bordeaux
The heart of this September 2025 Europe trip was a tour across the south of France to visit prehistoric cave paintings (blogs to come). We were to meet early in the morning at the Bordeaux airport …
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November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM