Balazuc (French pronunciation: [balazyk]; Occitan: Balasuc) is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southern France.

Balazuc has the remains of Neanderthal men who hunted ibex there over 50,000 years ago at the beginning of the last ice age.

to raise goats and sheep, cultivate the bottom of the depressions, and place their dead in mass graves in stone coffins.

The Gallo-Romans cultivated the Plain des Salles where the great Roman road passed between the Rhône and Nîmes.

An early Christian sarcophagus has been found whose high reliefs include biblical scenes (a facsimile is displayed in the town hall).