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Cave / Rock Art
Cave / Rock Art sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
4 cave / rock art sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Cave / Rock Art sacred sites overview
Cave / Rock Art sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Cave of La Vieja, Alpera
Alpera, Alpera, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Cueva de la Vieja is a UNESCO World Heritage rock art shelter on the slopes of Cerro del Bosque in Albacete, Spain, preserving more than a hundred painted figures spanning...
Cova dels Cavalls, Valltorta
Tírig, Tírig, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain
Cova dels Cavalls holds one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish Levantine rock art: a hunting scene in which nine deer are driven by beaters toward four archers,...
Ekain Cave
Deba, Zestoa, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain
Deep in a Basque limestone hill, Magdalenian hunters created one of the world's great concentrations of Palaeolithic cave art....
Santimamiñe Cave
Kortezubi, Kortezubi, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain
Inside a hillside cave near Bilbao, Magdalenian hunter-gatherers painted fifty animal figures roughly 14,000 years ago — bison, horses, ibex — in a chamber so deep it...
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Cave / Rock Art sacred-site questions
- What cave / rock art sacred sites are included?
- Cave / Rock Art sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 4 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these cave / rock art sites located?
- Major country clusters include Spain.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Prehistoric.
- Can I view cave / rock art sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.