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Castillejo del Bonete

Terrinches, Campo de Montiel, Ciudad Real

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Castillejo del Bonete

Monument · Terrinches, Campo de Montiel, Ciudad Real

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Castillejo del Bonete is a Chalcolithic and Bronze Age site located in Terrinches, in the Campo de Montiel, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) as an Archaeological Zone in 2014 and open to guided visits. It is a solar sanctuary made up of several mounds connected by corridors, some funnel-shaped and oriented towards the winter solstice, built over a natural cave sealed from prehistory until its discovery in 2003 and which preserves schematic rock art. Both the cave and the outer mounds were used for more than a thousand years to bury people and celebrate rites with food and drink. The archaeologist Martín Almagro Gorbea considers it one of the most important finds in western Europe this century.

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