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Grotte du Mas d'Azil - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

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About Grotte du Mas d'Azil

The Grotte du Mas d'Azil is a cavity crossed by a road and by the Arize river which hollowed it out. This cavity of imposing dimensions opens into the Plantaurel massif, the commune of Mas-d'Azil, department of Ariège. It was occupied at different prehistoric and historical periods and gave its name to a prehistoric culture, the Azilian.
Address : D119, Avenue de la Grotte, 09290 Le Mas-d'Azil, France

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Chateau de FoixThe Château de Foix is a castle in the French département of Ariège. An important tourist site, it dominates the town of Foix and was once a Cathar Castle. It is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. It was the home of the celebrated family of counts who became the viscount of Béarn, then kings of Navarre and kings of France.
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10 Gr Grande RueThe trail hiking 10 or GR 10 is a great hiking trail French crossing the chain Pyrenees, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. From west to east, it begins by climbing the hillsides of the Basque Country from Hendaye on the Atlantic Ocean, on the Basque Coast, then joins the Mediterranean Sea at Banyuls-Sur-Mer on the Côte Vermeille, a 916 km route.
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Cave of NiauxThe famous Niaux Cave is located in the northern foothills of the Pyrenees just south of the French town of Foix. It is one of Europe's most impressive Palaeolithic rock art galleries of cave paintings. There are more than two kilometres of galleries, with a hundred or more superb paintings from Magdalenian times, most of which are in the famous 'Salon Noir', 800 metres from the entrance.
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Château de MontségurThe Château de Montségur is probably the best known of all Cathar Castles. It is famous as the last Cathar stronghold, which fell after a 10-month siege in 1244. A field below the hilltop castle is reputed to be the site where over 200 Cathars were burned alive, having refused to renounce their faith. The present ruin is open to the public, as is a museum in the nearby modern village of Montségur. There is an entrance fee for both.
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Cité de l'EspaceThe Cité de l'Espace is a park dedicated to the conquest of space, space technologies, and the planets, it is located in Toulouse and opened on June 27, 1997. You can see exhibits on astronautics and astronomy, model rockets of space stations of planets, etc. Animations allow you to better understand certain aspects of the constraints undergone by the body. A rotating chair will completely disorient your sense of balance, but once you have recovered you will be able to taste the joys of traveli
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Muséum de ToulouseThe Toulouse museum is a natural history and ethnology museum located in the Jardin des Plantes in Toulouse, Busca - Montplaisir district. The Toulouse Natural History Museum houses a collection of more than two and a half million pieces over an area of ​​around 6,000 m, not counting the external annexes. It is the second-largest in France after the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

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