🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Racó de Gorgorí — Abric V
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising over 700 rock art sites across eastern Spain
- Levantine rock art tradition — Europe's first narrative art form
- Created primarily between 8,000 BCE and 3,000 BCE (Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic periods)
- Located in rock shelters and shallow caves; protected under Spanish law
Racó de Gorgorí — Abric V is a rock shelter site within the UNESCO-designated Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, located in eastern Spain. Part of a series of shelters in the Racó de Gorgorí group, it contains prehistoric rock paintings that form part of Europe's most extensive concentration of Levantine rock art. The site contributes to the Outstanding Universal Value of a property spanning more than 700 documented locations across the region ...