Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
A World Heritage Site in France, inscribed in 1979 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1979
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (i)(iii)
- Property area
- approx. 105.7 ha
- Component parts
- 15
- Coordinates
- 45.0575, 1.1700
- UNESCO ID
- 85
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Sites préhistoriques et grottes ornées de la vallée de la Vézère
- Spanish
- Sitios prehistóricos y cuevas con pinturas del valle del Vézère
- Chinese
- 韦泽尔峡谷洞穴群与史前遗迹
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- Amiens Cathedral (1981)
- Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (2007)
- Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments (1981)
- Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944 (2026)
- Belfries of Belgium and France (1999)
- Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (2007)
- Bourges Cathedral (1992)
- Canal du Midi (1996)
- Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims (1991)
- Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena (2018)
- Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars (2015)
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