{"id":31,"date":"2006-11-29T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T12:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-11-29T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T12:35:02","slug":"notes-from-france-lascaux-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/notes-from-france-lascaux-ii","title":{"rendered":"Lascaux II &#8211; Country Roads of France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The western edges of the Massif Central and the northern slopes of the Pyrenees are noted for an excellent concentration of Palaeolithic caves.\u00a0 Lascaux is set a little further away from the traditional sites, but is\u00a0the most famous of these early Stone Age caves.\u00a0 When you get there, you&#8217;ll hear the story of how four teenage boys stumbled upon Lascaux in 1940 on a day&#8217;s outing.\u00a0 They knew that their discovery was important and decided to keep it a secret &#8230; for four days, and finally told their teacher.\u00a0 This then evolved into\u00a0perhaps the greatest archaelogical find in the 20th century.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<!--more-->After the war, work was carried out\u00a0to widen the entrance and lower the floor so that tourists could visit.\u00a0 By 1955 deterioration of the paintings began to show and by April 1963 the Ministry of Culture decided to close Lascaux to visitors and Lascaux II was then\u00a0created to replicate Lascaux.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so amazing about the cave paintings\u00a0at Lascaux is the proportions of the animals painted are very accurate and that the artist\u00a0worked with the contours of the cave walls to create perspective.\u00a0\u00a0In the Great Hall\u00a0of the Bulls you&#8217;ll see really impressive examples of Palaeolithic art.\u00a0 Lascaux II has been beautifully created and in itself is a work of art.\u00a0The details of how it was built are particularly interesting, they went to so much trouble to ensure accuracy, especially the artist who recreated the paintings using original materials and methods over many years.<\/p>\n<p>Only two of the four early discoverers are alive today and each year on September 12, they come to the town for a commemorative ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Note that it is\u00a0cold in the caves (even during our September visit) and\u00a0cameras are not allowed.\u00a0 Lascaux II is definitely worth a visit, even though it&#8217;s only a replica it feels real.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Page\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The western edges of the Massif Central and the northern slopes of the Pyrenees are noted for an excellent concentration of Palaeolithic caves.\u00a0 Lascaux is set a little further away from the traditional sites, but is\u00a0the most famous of these early Stone Age caves.\u00a0 When you get there, you&#8217;ll hear the story of how four [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,2193,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-roads-of-france","category-europe-sept-oct-2006","category-france"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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