🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
La Sarga – Abric III, a UNESCO World Heritage rock shelter in eastern Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage component 874-257 within a serial property of over 700 sites across eastern Spain
- Schematic post-Paleolithic rock art on limestone, primarily in red iron oxide pigment
- Located near Alcoy (Alcoi) in Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
- Dated to approximately 6000–2500 BCE (Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods)
La Sarga – Abric III is a prehistoric rock shelter in eastern Spain that preserves schematic rock art and forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage serial property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed in 1998. The site is located near Alcoy in the province of Alicante within a rugged limestone landscape. As component 874-257 of a property comprising more than 700 sites, Abric III exemplifies the symbolic and artistic traditions of Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...