TouchScreenTravels logo

TouchScreenTravels

Our Touch, your Travels…

This is a preview of the full content of our France’s Best app.

Please consider downloading this app to support small independent publishing and because:

  • All content is designed for mobile devices and works best there.
  • Detailed in-app maps will help you find sites using your device’s GPS.
  • The app works offline (one time upgrade required on Android versions).
  • All advertising (only present on Android versions) can be removed.

The app will also allow you to:

  • Add custom locations to the app map (your hotel…).
  • Create your own list of favourites as you browse.
  • Search the entire contents using a fast and simple text-search tool.
  • Make one-click phone calls (on phones).
iOS App Store Google Play

Grottes de Lascaux

Sorry we’re closed but how about Lascaux 2 or maybe 4?

Lascaux Cave Painting

The Vézère Valley was home to some of Europe’s first settlers who came from the plains of Africa to settle here thousands of years ago. Prehistoric man took refuge in the many caves along the riverbanks the most well known is at Lascaux. Closed to visitors nowadays they can however, visit amazing interactive reproductions at Lascaux 2 and 4.

The Cave at Lascaux in the Black Périgord is one of the foremost sites in the world in terms of the quantity and quality of the paintings discovered on the site in 1940. Opened to the public in 1949, the cave was of such huge interest that over a million visitors came during the next few years.

Unfortunately, the resultant carbon dioxide and humidity began to destroy the artwork and so the cave was closed. Due to the large number of photographic images which existed it was possible to construct an exact replica nearby.

Lascaux 2, 3 and now 4!

Read the full content in the app
iOS App Store Google Play

700 BCE: Prehistoric Era

Dordogne

Text © Paul Shawcross

Images by EU, Jan Manu