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Roc del Rumbau (Rock)

Peramola, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Roc del Rumbau (Rock)

Curiosity · Peramola, Alt Urgell, Lleida

A rock shelter with cave paintings located in the rocky massif of the Roc del Rumbau, or Roca dels Moros, north of Peramola, which reaches 991 metres at its highest point. The paintings are preserved in a small east-facing cavity, about three metres high by two metres wide, some six metres above the ground, between two mineral water flows that have altered much of the rock. Six schematic figures can be made out: concatenated circles, an indeterminate feature, a stroke, ringed elements with pigment stains, finger markings and a bar. This singularity places the group in the Bronze Age, although there is no firm data to establish its chronology precisely. It is inscribed on the World Heritage list of rock art of the Mediterranean basin of the Iberian Peninsula.

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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