Other for sale in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France

• 2,74 hectares de terrain
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Exclusive - Discovery Place of Cro-Magnon Man - Listed as UNESCO World Heritage - The Cro-Magnon Shelter, the discovery place of Cro-Magnon Man, Homo Sapiens. The Sorcerer's Cave, a reference parietal cave adorned with a rich prehistoric engraved decor. Two major prehistoric sites for the study of Human History, their museums, their collections, Dordogne, France. In the Valley of Man, near Lascaux, which has been classified by UNESCO since 1979 as "Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère Valley". "There is no prehistoric site in the world that equals this one in terms of the quantity, quality, and variety of findings." Each site is visited by approximately 10,000 visitors per year (owner's figures are indicative). The Cro-Magnon shelter in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is the discovery site in 1868 that gave its name to Cro-Magnon Man, Homo Sapiens, it is a rock shelter, a burial site. In 1868, during railway construction, 5 fossil skeletons were discovered with shell ornaments, ivory, red ochre, flint, and bones. This burial dated back to -28,000 years is the first discovery of modern man, now called Homo Sapiens, originally called Cro-Magnon Man, and the first discovery of a burial of a prehistoric man. The bones and ornaments are now in various museums including the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. A museum was created on site after 15 years of work to unify the site which was previously fragmented and inaugurated in 2014 by Yves Coppens, internationally renowned paleontologist and paleoanthropologist. It consists of a 19th-century stone house and longhouse, fully restored with fine materials and converted into a museum featuring video projections, writings, archaeological objects, a space dedicated to 19th-century archaeology and the discovery of the Cro-Magnon shelter in 1868 which is a rock shelter cleared and set up for a cliff-side sound tour. A house from the early 20th century in good condition, approximately 100m2 on three levels. Private parking. 550 meters from the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac. The Sorcerer's Cave in Saint-Cirq in a natural site of great beauty is a prehistoric site adorned with Magdalenian rock sculptures, 17,000 years ago. Lighting and mirrors allow for viewing the exceptional decor, of animals, horses, bison, geometric shapes, three rare human representations, including a sorcerer with an erect penis. At the side of the cliff, the site resembles a village of three houses with thatched roofs, and various small outbuildings, beautifully restored in a traditional manner, the entrance to the cave under a wooden awning of troglodytes and small stairs in the rock. Bread oven, fountain. A terraced garden overlooking the valley. Parking. Collections of flint and archaeological objects, numerous animal remains, molds, Magdalenian carved flint probably linked to a fertility cult, rare Magdalenian carved turtle. The two sites, 5.4km apart, are protected: -Classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. The plaque is posted on site. -Classified as Historical Monument. UNESCO ranking note of the "Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère Valley" in 1979: "There is no prehistoric site in the world that equals this one in terms of the quantity, quality, and variety of findings." Cro-Magnon Shelter, 12,739m2 of land. Sorcerer's Cave, 14,573m2 of land. The Cro-Magnon shelter generated a turnover from visits of approximately €52,000 to €54,000 and €15,000 for the boutique from 2015 to 2017. The Sorcerer's Cave generated a turnover from visits of approximately €54,000 to €58,000 and €10,000 to €11,000 for the boutique from 2015 to 2017. Location: - Vézère Valley, Valley of Man. - 24km from Lascaux. - 10km from Le Bugue, all shops and services. - Train station just in front of the Cro-Magnon shelter. Price: 1,600,000 Euros including agency fees, seller's fees.