Roadtrip from site to site

Explore an extraordinary underground landscape with its huge rooms, spectacular concretions dating back millions of years and incredible prehistoric remains.

During this trip you will meet Cro-Magnon who, 16 years ago, decorated the cave, using various techniques, as astonishing as they are rare, such as painting, engraving or modeling on clay. He even left the imprint of his hand.

Talking about Prehistory in Ariège without mentioning the Grotte de la Vache would be a serious failure. The Cow Cave is a true giant of Prehistory!

She delivered thousands of objects to archaeologists: animal bones and teeth, tools and weapons, but
also sublime decorated objects, each more fine and delicate than the other. To visit this archaeological site is to discover the intimacy and life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

With the emotion of an explorer and by the light of a lamp, follow in the footsteps of the Cro-Magnons: you have an appointment with a part of your history.

The visit will allow you to admire, like nowhere else, the authentic paintings of our ancestors which are concentrated in the Salon Noir; superb paintings of animals associated with enigmatic signs, which will transport you to distant times for a sacred adventure ...

Travel back in time to the heart of the daily life of Cro-Magnons ... Walk in the footsteps of prehistoric men for a day.

Throughout the activity workshops, you will learn to hunt, to cut flint, to light a fire like 16 years ago, to excavate like an archaeologist or to paint on the walls of a cave that is larger than life. !
The Grand Atelier, a 2 m² museographic space, will introduce you to the art of Prehistory through films, objects and life-size replicas such as the reproduction of the Salon Noir in the cave of Niaux, of the “forbidden Niaux” and the Marsoulas cave.

The largest open-air talc quarry in the world awaits you in Ariège, in the heart of the Pyrenees!

Go to the brand new talc museum in Luzenac and visit the Trimouns quarry for real!
An essential and unique site in France that you can visit to discover all the secrets of the softest and most tender rock on our planet.

The odyssey of water and biodiversity!

Mountaneô is a museum space dedicated to hydroelectric production, biodiversity and mountain discovery. Discover its resources and the animals that inhabit it! find interactive media to discover the Orlu National Reserve. Learn all about how hydroelectricity works with a immersive game (Hydrogame) and a visit to the Orlu hydroelectric power station. Go on a walk to discover the marmots in the National Reserve.
Let yourself be surprised in the forest of sounds by its forty poetic sound mechanics and discover many other surprises!
Great playground and rejuvenation, the Ariège Pyrenees hold many surprises... We invite you to take a new look at the mountain and let your senses guide you through a fun, immersive and interactive experience!

After work worthy of the greatest medieval construction sites, the new castle of Foix welcomes you: welcome to the XNUMXth century!

Discover a 2 m² museum space and get to know the Counts of Foix. On its rock, the castle is also getting a facelift: immersive decorations, participatory workshops and breathtaking war and construction machines: certainly an unforgettable visit!

Look up and contemplate the superb Renaissance paintings of Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède Cathedral. You will then understand its nickname “Ariège Sistine Chapel”

A visit to the Bishops' Palace, alternately bishopric, prison or insane asylum, will also reveal the history of Couserans and the development of the site thanks to a completely new museum. Discover the monetary treasure and its 13 pieces, the models and interactive devices, the psychiatric history of the place and the new objects taken from the reserves for the occasion.