🧭 Cova del Mansano
Component site of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin UNESCO World Heritage property
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site component (ID 874-163), inscribed 1998 as part of a serial property
- Located in eastern Spain's Mediterranean coastal region; coordinates 38.70975, -0.050139
- Levantine rock art tradition, dated approximately 10,000–6,500 years before present (Mesolithic to early Neolithic)
- Protected under Spanish national heritage law with controlled access policies
Cova del Mansano is a rock shelter in eastern Spain containing prehistoric pictorial motifs created by hunter-gatherer and early agrarian societies. The site forms one component of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising more than 700 sites. The cave preserves mineral pigment paintings applied directly to limestone rock faces, offering material evidence of human symbolic and social expression spanning several millennia ...