🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Abric de la Paella, Catalonia, Spain
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (serial inscription 874-227), inscribed 1998
- Located in Tarragona province, Catalonia, northeastern Spain
- Levantine rock art dated to approximately 8000–3500 BCE
- Part of a property comprising more than 700 individual prehistoric painting sites across eastern Spain
Abric de la Paella is a limestone rock shelter in northeastern Spain that contains examples of Levantine rock art, a distinctive prehistoric artistic tradition of the eastern Iberian Peninsula. The shelter's protected rock walls preserve paintings executed primarily in red and dark reddish-brown mineral pigments. The site is recognized as an official component of the UNESCO World Heritage property Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, designated for its outstanding ...