🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Coves Roges Abric I, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO serial site comprising over 700 rock art locations across eastern Spain
- Levantine-style paintings dating from approximately 7,000 to 4,000 years before present
- Inscribed in 1998 under criteria (iii) and (iv) for exceptional testimony to vanished cultural tradition
- Located in Aragón, Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Castilla–La Mancha provinces
Coves Roges Abric I is part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing the largest concentration of prehistoric rock art in Europe. This extensive cultural property spans multiple provinces across eastern and southeastern Spain and preserves representative examples of Levantine-style rock paintings that illustrate hunting scenes, human figures, and fauna rendered with dynamic lines and naturalistic proportions. The shelter ...