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Gouffre de Poudrey is one of France’s great natural sites — bring good shoes and a camera. Locate it on the map, book a room nearby in a click, or add it to your travel list to build your itinerary.
About Gouffre de Poudrey
Near Étalans in the Doubs, the Gouffre de Poudrey is one of the largest single caverns open to visitors in France, a colossal underground chamber so vast that a cathedral could stand within it. Reached down a long stairway into the earth, the great void opens to reveal a forest of massive stalagmites rising from the floor and a roof lost in darkness far overhead, all set aglow by a dramatic sound-and-light show. Formed over some seventy million years as water dissolved the limestone of the Jura, the chamber is a humbling reminder of the scale of nature's slow underground work. Immense, atmospheric and easy to visit, the Gouffre de Poudrey is one of the great subterranean spectacles of eastern France.