Limestone plateaus are stuffed with caves and with avens. Some of these sites deserve amply the bend.


  • Discovered in 1897 by Louis ARMAND (serrurier in Rozier) and Edouard-Alfred MARTEL, Aven Armand is grand. Grand by its size: 120 metres long, 65 wide and 45 high (the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris would return there). Grand by his 400 stalagmites: 30 m of height for the highest of stalagmites (of the cave and the world!).
    For more information, visit the official site of the cave: www.aven-armand.com



  • With its 1200 metres long, the cave of Dargilan, called also the "pink cave", leaves an unforgettable recollection thanks to its variety of concretions, draperies, colours and to its casting of calcite of 2000 m2. It is the vastest cave of Limestone plateaus and Cevennes.
    For more information, visit the official site of the cave: www.dargilan.com



  • On the verge of Cevennes and Limestone plateaus, in the massif of Aigoual, the abyss of Bramabiau is a part of these different caves: the water continues at the moment to make its work, the visit of the cave is made on both sides of the subterranean course of the river Le Bonheur (The Happiness), the entrance is an enormous crack in the mountain.
    It is further to the crossing of Bramabiau (in June 27th and 28th, 1888) by E.A. Hummer and his companions, that was born the investigation of the subterranean world in the region of the big limestone plateaus.




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