Location Portugal
Spain Criteria i, iii Province Province of Salamanca UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription 2010 | Type Cultural Reference 866 Phone +34 699 30 26 65 | |
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UNESCO region Europe and North America Address Calle del Tejar, 16, 37488 Villar de la Yegua, Salamanca, Spain Similar Casa Rural Miraconc, Casas Rurales La Noria, casa rural EL MANANTI, Casa Faustino | ||
Arte libre siega verde y foz c a
Siega Verde ([ˈsjeɣa ˈβeɾðe]) is an archaeological site in the municipality of Villar de la Yegua, province of Salamanca, in Castile and León, Spain. It was added to the Côa Valley Paleolithic Art site in the World Heritage List in 2010.
The site consists of a series of rock carvings, discovered in 1988 by professor Manuel Santoja y Rosario Pérez, during an inventory campaign of archaeological sites in the valley of the Águeda river. Subjects include horses, goats, bulls and deer, among the most common ones, as well as bison, reindeer and the woolly rhinoceros, which were not yet extinct at the time.
The engravings date to the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic (circa 20,000 years ago). There are also more recent, anthropomorphic representations, dating to the Magdalenian age (c. 12,000 years ago). There is a total of 94 panels, spanning some 3 kilometers of rock.