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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Coves Roges Abric II–III, Spain


🕐 3 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 13:00

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📋 Fast Facts
  • Serial property comprising over 700 prehistoric rock-art shelters across eastern Spain
  • Artwork dates from approximately 7th to 4th millennium BCE
  • Coves Roges Abric II–III feature schematic and Levantine-style paintings in red iron-oxide pigments
  • Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site for exceptional testimony to prehistoric symbolic expression

Coves Roges Abric II–III are component shelters within the larger serial property known as Rock Art of the ...

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