🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de Parets — a component site of a vast prehistoric rock art serial property
📋 Fast Facts
- Serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising approximately 750 rock-art locations across eastern and southern Spain
- Barranc de Parets is designated component site 874-174
- Artistic tradition dated primarily 8000–5000 BCE, representing the transition from hunter-gatherer to early Neolithic societies
- Paintings executed in mineral-based red and brown pigments on rock shelters and limestone formations
Barranc de Parets is one designated component within the serial UNESCO World Heritage property titled Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. This broader property recognizes hundreds of prehistoric rock-art locations distributed across eastern and southern Spain as an exceptional testimony to early human artistic and symbolic expression. The site sits within a rugged Mediterranean landscape of narrow ravines, limestone formations, and sheltered rock overhangs—natural ...