Aven Armand Cave
Hures-la-Parade Entre Plaine et Causse
Privilege Card
Periods and opening hours
Opening on Saturday 03 April 2021
From April 3 to July 11, 2021
- Jules Verne Tour: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. * and 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. *
- Exploration visit: Thursday and Sunday at 8:30 am – reservation required via the online ticket office
- VIP tour : by reservation
- Special Visit: every day at 10 a.m. (except Thursday & Sunday)
From July 12 to August 29, 2021
- Jules Verne visit: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. *
- Exploration visit: Thursday and Sunday at 8 a.m. Reservation required via the online ticket office
- VIP tour only : by reservation.
- Special Visit: every day at 10 a.m. (except Thursday & Sunday)
From August 30 to November 7, 2021
- Jules Verne Tour: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. * and 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. *
- Exploration visit (by reservation required via the online ticket office)
* last departure of the funicular
About
Unique in the world, l’Aven ARMAND was discovered on the Causse Méjean in 1897 by Louis Armand, Armand Viré and Edouard-Alfred Martel, father of French speleology. You will be welcomed at the speleogare, an atypical station in the heart of the Causse Méjean which will allow you to leave for an underground trip for 1 hour. After a funicular descent, allowing the easiest access, let yourself be guided in the heart of a 20 million years old white forest, of alabaster and crystal, unique in the world. An exceptional universe for this white forest of more than 400 stalagmites which reveals its secrets to you.
The vocation of E-A Martel was strongly inspired by Jules Verne. 150 years ago, Jules Verne wrote “Voyage to the Center of the Earth”, inventing an underground world filled with fabulous animals, giant plants and surrounded by magic crystals … This great visionary had imagined a world that already existed under our feet! It was natural to pay tribute to him by staging it in sound and light more than 100 meters underground.
Magic, Poetry, Dream will be there during your visit to Aven Armand.
Prices
RATES 2021
VISIT JULES VERNES -1h
- Adult (over 18): € 14.80
- Child (5 to 17 years old): € 10.50
- Baby (0 to 4 years old): free
- Reduced price (students, job seekers, the disabled and the Languedoc Exceptional Sites Pass): reduction of € 1 on the entry price.
EXPLORATION VISIT – 2h
44 € per person
included the loan of equipment for the descent of the well and the visit, the exploration certificate, a hot or cold drink per person served at the Spéléo Café at the end of the visit.
From 12 years old
By reservation, up to 16 people
PRIVATE VISIT
Guide and funicular privatization: package of 60 € + individual price per person
- Adult (over 18): € 14.80
- Child (5 to 17 years old): € 10.50
- Baby (0 to 4 years old): free
- Reduced rate (partners, students, job seekers, disabled): reduction of € 1
including the private visit with your guide, the privatization of the descent and ascent by funicular. One hot or cold drink per person served at the Spéléo Café at the end of the visit, on presentation of the ticket for the special visit.
All public
By reservation from 4 people up to 9 people recommended, maximum 15 people
VIP VISIT : 1h30
All-inclusive package 700 euros (for 1 to 9 people)
included the private visit with your guide, the privatization of Aven Armand, the Caussenard breakfast served at the Spéléo Café at the end of the visit.
All public
Up to 9 people advised, maximum 15 people.