Montignac pays homage, this Saturday, September 12, to the four “inventors” of the Lascaux cave, exactly 80 years after their discovery. It was in fact on Thursday September 12, 1940 that Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agniel and Simon Coencas went down for the first time into the cave, in search of a legendary treasure, to discover the paintings preserved for 17,000 years. . This anniversary is the opportunity to inaugurate the discovery trail: a four-kilometer walk for the whole family with an application on their phone that tells the story of the discovery. At each of the twelve stages, the DORIE application offers you photos and a recorded story, from the house of Marcel Ravidat (this is the first stage) to the international center of parietal art Lascaux IV.
– Corinne Seiller-Laleu – Dordogne Departmental Council
It is the tourism service of the Departmental Council which marked out this path and its twelve stages, starting in front of the house of Marcel Ravidat known as “the convict”, before continuing with a historical reminder on the Montignac of September 8, 1940, then the fortuitous meeting of the four boys, the discovery of the paintings, the first explorations, the intervention of the teacher Léon Laval, the opening to the public then the closing of the cave and its complete copy. The walk ends on the roof of Lascaux IV.
Soon other rides on the application
The Lascaux Discovery Trail is the first walk offered by this DORIE app, but the Dordogne Departmental Council plans to add others to other eco-tourism sites.