Explore the Lac de la Pluie
A fault opened up and the Lac de Pluie emerged…
Purchase your tickets
Entrance tickets, guided tours, school groups and other groups, etc.
Coming to the Gouffre de Padirac
All roads lead there! Location, access, and more.
“No human has gone before us in these depths, no-one knows where we go or what we see, nothing so strangely beautiful has ever been presented to us, and spontaneously we ask each other the same question:
“Are we not dreaming?”
Édouard-Alfred Martel
News and Events
30 march - 03 november 2019
Robert Doisneau at the Gouffre de Padirac
The exhibition displays a number of photographs of a timeless Gouffre de Padirac: the natural site and its employees, marvelling visitors, as well as pretty regional scenes.
Saturdays June 1st, July 20 & 27th, August 24th and October, 26th 2019
"Explorer" tours
Over an evening, experience the unbelievable underground adventure of the Gouffre de Padirac just as Édouard-Alfred Martel did in 1889.
With lamps to light your way you will you will get the fullest sense of the Gouffre, in the silence, the dark, and the cool...
March 30 - November 3, 2019
Guided tour of the Gouffre de Padirac
Choose the guided tour of the largest underground natural site in France. (Comments in French only)
Saturday 22 June 2019
we support the "petits princes" association
For several years now, the Gouffre de Padirac has supported the "Petits Princes" Association, which was set up in 1987 to make dreams come true for children and adolescents who are seriously ill.
On 22 June, part of the takings will be donated to the association.
130 years of history
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