- PERIGUEUX, France (AFP) --
Looking to buy in southwest France? A retired farmer in the Dordogne region
is selling his prehistoric cave adorned with drawings for just EUR 1 million
(USD 1.3 million dollars).
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- "I'm 76 years old and I can't show people around
anymore. I can't go up and down the steps," Ernest Paluzzano, who
has shown his "Grotte du Sorcier" to thousands of tourists over
the years, told AFP on Monday.
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- In 1969, Paluzzano, a farmer of Italian descent, bought
the site in the town of Saint-Cirq, which owes its name - "the sorcerer's
cave" - to a drawing of a human figure detailing the face, back and
limbs.
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- The cave, discovered in 1952 by a dentist and amateur
archeologist, is home to drawings dating back to the Magdalenian period,
or between 22,000 and 15,000 years BC, according to French experts.
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- Paluzzano told AFP he had received a barrage of telephone
calls from interested buyers since he posted a "for sale" sign
near the entrance to his cave a few days ago.
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