Vallon-Pont-d'Arc

French commune
nomcommune=Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
région=Rhône-Alpes
département=Ardèche
arrondissement=Largentière
canton=Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
insee=07330
cp=07150
maire=Pierre Peschier
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=
longitude=4.39444444444
latitude=44.4077777778
alt moy=118 m
alt mini=60
alt maxi=434 m
hectares=2862
km²=28.62
sans=2027
date-sans=1999
dens=70
date-dens=1999

Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is a commune in the Ardèche department in southeastern France.

ights

It features the Pont d'Arc, a limestone natural bridge carved out by the river Ardèche.

The castle has become the town hall and houses some priceless Aubusson tapestries.

The nearby Chauvet Cave, a network of caves discovered on 18 December 1994, contains cave paintings and engravings that are estimated to be 30,000 to 32,000 years old.

Geography

Originally the "Vallon-Pont-d'Arc" would have been part of a large rocky area, where the Ardeche river flowed around as a meander, after hundreds and thousands years of erosion the river broke through causing an arc. the river now flows through this arc, and has done for thousands of years.

ee also

*Communes of the Ardèche department

References

* "Based on the article in the French Wikipedia."