Alliat (; ) is a commune in the Ariège department and Occitanie region in southwestern France.
Geography Commune in the "Haute-Ariège" part of the Pyrenees located 15 km from the city of Foix and 5 km from the city of Tarascon-sur-Ariège, in the "Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises".
Population Inhabitants of Alliat are called Alliatois in French.
Sights The "cave of the cow" (): with distinctive archeological strata discovered in its entrance and in the "salle Monique", opened to the public in 1979. It produced a remarkably rich collection of prehistorical objects from the Magdalenian era (12,000 to 14,000 years old), including a large number of harpoons and assegai points as well as more than 200 pieces of art: bones, engraved reindeer and red deer antlers, sculpture of animals, sometimes of humans, as well as rare species for that period: panther, bear, wolves, Saiga antelope, birds and salmon. It was one of the first caves explored in Ariège (Félix Garrigou, in 1866). A second salle was discovered in 1952 and was explored by its discoverer, Romain Robert, until 1964.
Fortified cave Spoulgas d’Alliat: located 100 m south of the cave of the cow.Maps and descriptions available in "Monographies villageoises en Sabarthès", Florence Guillot, 1999.
Activities Rock climbing around the caves Horse riding
See also Communes of the Ariège department
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