Cave Paintings route
During this trip you will go up the mountain along the Turia River route, that waters the entire garden.
One of the best routes in Chulilla and very close to our accommodations
Trail located in the municipality of Chulilla.
8 Km
magnificent views
easy
well signposted
local trail
Paintings
You start from the Plaza de la Baronía and walk through several streets such as :, Arrabal and Turia to the Barraquillo neighborhood.
Once on the river bank, you reach the area of Los Huertos, and once crossed the bridge, you will see the signs to get to the road.
You will progressively go up the Falfiguera ravine, leaving behind the view of Chulilla. When you have walked a kilometer and a half from the beginning of the Barranco, there will be an indication of the cave paintings. At the top of it and after climbing a steep slope will be the paintings.
The paintings were found at the end of 1998. After a first observation, the frieze was revealed to be a find of extraordinary interest due to the appearance and quantity of the pictorial representations.. The painted scenes were related to the rites of a hunting population. In these enclosures or shelters-sanctuaries, various ceremonies would be carried out., with the purpose of venerating certain spirits and periodically reactivating the creative force of the paintings to which the hunted animals would be linked, what depended, definitely, his own subsistence.
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The fauna represented corresponds to current species: caprids and bovids, that appear solo or in herds. These animals are drawn in profile, but with the horns facing forward and this pictorial technique is twisted perspective. The human figure acquires great importance as the main theme and when it appears in the same scene with the animals it is the human figure that dominates them., One of the important characteristics of these specific paintings is the appearance of women in the representation, a characteristic that is not shared by the rest of the cave paintings of the time existing throughout the Mediterranean.. There are hunting scenes, of dances, of isolated archers, groups of animals, points and strokes, bars and indeterminate motifs, all represented with great movement.
Important; The trail is part of the Los Pantaneros trail, if it is covered in its entirety, go through the Cave Paintings.
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