I visited some fantastic painted caves in Southern France 2 years ago, around Les Eyzies (where you can visit the extremely famous Cro Magnon, and close to Lasc

I visited some fantastic painted caves in Southern France 2 years ago, around Les Eyzies (where you can visit the extremely famous Cro Magnon, and close to Lascaux). The most impressive is the cave of Combarelles. It's a cramped and wet tunnel where only 5 persons and a guide can enter at a time. Lighting is mostly from the guide's lamp. You're literally watching the engravings on the wall at 50 cm. It will probably be closed to visits forever now. Like Font-de-Gaume, the last cave with polychrome paintings open to the public (you had to come at 8AM to have any chance of entering: it's limited to 40 people/day).