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