Logbook · 32 places

65 rock art shelters of Moratalla

Moratalla, Noroeste, Murcia

1 Villages · 14 Monuments · 12 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 2 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

Spain › Region of Murcia › Noroeste › Moratalla › 65 rock art shelters of Moratalla

65 rock art shelters of Moratalla

Curiosity · Moratalla, Noroeste, Murcia

65 rock art shelters of Moratalla

Moratalla is home to 65 shelters with rock paintings in the Levantine, Schematic and Historic styles, spread across its territory, including the groups of Cañaica del Calar, Fuente del Sabuco, La Molata and Fuente de la Rogativa. Levantine art dates back about ten thousand years and Schematic art about six thousand five hundred, both declared World Heritage Sites in 1998 as part of the rock art of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. The municipality concentrates more than half of all the rock paintings in the whole Region of Murcia.

Photo: Antonio Aroca Arques (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What to see and do in Moratalla