🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de l'Infern, Abrigo IV – Levantine prehistoric shelter in Valencia, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (Property ID: 874); internal site code 874-198
- Levantine rock art tradition dating to approximately 10,000–6,500 years before present
- Fine-line paintings depicting human figures in motion, hunting scenes, and endemic fauna
- Located in Barranc de l'Infern (Hells Ravine), Valencian Community, eastern Spain; part of a serial property encompassing over 700 documented sites across the Mediterranean Basin
Barranc de l'Infern, Abrigo IV, is a prehistoric rock art shelter in the Valencian Community of Spain and one of the documented sites within the serial UNESCO World Heritage property known as Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. The shelter is situated in a karstic landscape of deep gorges and limestone formations that have protected its fragile paintings for millennia. The site contributes to one of Europe's largest and most complete visual records of post-Paleolithic ...