Archaeological site · Rillo de Gallo
Rock shelters of Rillo de Gallo: UNESCO World Heritage Levantine art
The rock shelters of Rillo de Gallo, or Abrigos del Llano, preserve paintings in two styles: Levantine, with human and animal figures in hunting scenes, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998, and schematic, with a cruciform figure.
This place across time
Which eras you can read here
A single place can preserve traces from different eras. These layers connect what you see with the stories in the atlas.
- Municipality
- Rillo de Gallo
- Province
- Guadalajara
- Altitude
- 1,146 m
- Levantine art
- UNESCO 1998
- Eleven figures
- Hunting scenes
Two epochs on a single rock face
In the central area of the rock shelter, visible from a certain distance, there are eleven painted figures. Some belong to the Levantine style: human and animal figures in likely hunting scenes. Others are schematic style, among which a cross-shaped figure stands out.
At the boundary of the Levantine rock art realm
Levantine rock art forms part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage since 1998. Rillo de Gallo lies at the geographic limit of its distribution, lending this site exceptional interest. Located in Rillo de Gallo, near the fossil forest.
Location
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Reference villages: Rillo de Gallo · Herreria · Canales de Molina · Molina de Aragón.
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