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Prehistory Park

Tourism, holidays & weekends guide in the Ariège

Prehistory Park - Tourism, holidays & weekends guide in the Ariège
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The Prehistory Park (Parc de la Préhistoire), located in a magnificent mountain setting in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, takes visitors big and small on a wonderful journey back to prehistoric times. Dedicated to the life and art of the Magdalenian people, this fun and educational 13-hectare site features a museum of prehistoric art and a reconstruction of the Niaux caves and paintings produced by man 12,000 years ago. Various workshops and demonstrations on the themes of cave art, archaeological excavation, tool cutting, fire lighting and spear throwing using an atatl (spear thrower) are also organised.

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Prehistory Park

Both Park and Museum, the Prehistoric Park is the place to find out whether you are big or small, the Cro-Magnon life fun. The time of day, over the animation workshops, you will learn to hunt, cut flint to light the fire as there are 14 000 years, to dig such an archaeologist or painting on walls 'a cave !

The Grand Atelier, museum area of ​​2500 m², you will introduce the art of prehistory through films, objects and replicas scale such as Black Fair reproduction of the Niaux cave, the "forbidden Niaux" and grotto Marsoulas. Immersed in a glacial landscape, you will walk to meet emblematic of the era species: the cave lion, steppe bison, deer megaceros and the woolly mammoth.

The park is open from April to early November.

Facsimile black Salon
Facsimile black Salon
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Megaceros Giants of the Ice Age
Megaceros Giants of the Ice Age
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fire ignition workshop
fire ignition workshop
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Restaurant Park
Restaurant Park
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