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Cave of la Vieja de Alpera

Alpera, Monte Ibérico-Corredor de Almansa, Albacete

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Cave of la Vieja de Alpera

Nature · Alpera, Monte Ibérico-Corredor de Almansa, Albacete

Image of Alpera, not of the place itself.

Rock shelter with Levantine cave paintings discovered in 1910 by the schoolteacher Pascual Serrano Gómez, a resident of Corral-Rubio. Protected since 25 April 1924 as a monumento histórico-artístico (Spain's historical-artistic heritage protection category), it forms part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. It is an outstanding example of the Levantine art of the last Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherers, with more than 170 painted motifs: 33 archers, 13 human figures, deer, goats, bulls and a horse. It also preserves 37 later abstract motifs, between 6,500 and 3,200 years old, attributed to Neolithic groups. The same municipal district also contains the Cueva del Queso and the Carasoles del Bosque.

Photo: Viquipèdia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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