This village on the Vézère river has been inhabited since prehistoric times when cavemen dwelled in the rock shelters offered in the sides of the cliffs.
Archaeologists have found jewellery and tools here from Roman times too. The troglodyte village you see today originates back to about the 10th century. Its fortifications were built around the 12th century, although there are limited remains of these left today. It has an intact part-troglodyte chapel dating from the 15th century and the remains of a number of houses. No longer inhabited, it was abandoned in the early 20th century.
