🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Port de Confrides – Abric I, a component shelter in the UNESCO-inscribed Levantine rock-art ensemble
📌 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (serial inscription, added 1998)
- Location: Alicante province, Valencian Community, Spain (38.696°N, 0.301°W)
- Rock shelter containing Levantine tradition paintings dated to approximately 10,000–4,500 years before present
- One of over 700 component sites within the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin ensemble
Port de Confrides – Abric I is a shallow limestone rock shelter located in the mountainous terrain of eastern Spain, near the Port de Confrides mountain pass in Alicante. The site forms a single component within the transnational UNESCO World Heritage property known as Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, a serial inscription encompassing hundreds of individual rock-art locations. The shelter preserves painted panels in the Levantine artistic tradition, characterized by ...