🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc del Salt – Abric IV (Arc de Santa Lucia), Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site number 874, inscribed in 1998
- Part of a serial property comprising over 700 rock art sites across eastern Spain
- Rock art dated to post-Paleolithic period, approximately 8000–3500 BCE
- Located in limestone shelter within Barranc del Salt ravine, Valencian Community
Barranc del Salt – Abric IV (Arc de Santa Lucia) is a prehistoric rock art shelter forming part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site documents the symbolic, social, and economic life of prehistoric hunter-gatherer and early agropastoral communities through painted motifs on limestone surfaces. It represents one of the largest and most important concentrations of post-Paleolithic rock art in Europe ...