LA SERRETA CAVE IN CIEZA

Google Maps:
38.241462, -1.570304

Type of site:
Rock-Shelters

Village/Town:
Municipality: ()
Region: Murcia
State: Spain
Website: https://www.regmurcia.com/servlet/s.Sl?sit=c,373,m,3491&r=ReP-15673-DETALLE_REPORTAJESPADRE

Natural Environment:

The site is on Jumilla-Yecla Plateau, a plain 700m above sea level, with a few mountains, of which the largest is Monte Arabi.

Archaeological evidences in the site:

At Monte Arabi, as well as the rock-shelters of Cantos de la Visera and Cueva del Mediodía, there is the fortified settlement of El Arabilejo, dated in the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) and areas of rock engravings (cup-marks) associated with the settlement, forming a prehistoric complex of the first order within the context of the Spanish Levant.

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Opening Times:

Closed on Mondays

Booking and access:

Telephonic contact: + 34 968 79 09 01 (Monday to Friday, from 11 to 13h.

Nearby cultural destinations:

In Yecla, Church of San Francisco, Basilica of La Purisima, Main Square, Parish of the Assumption, Yecla Castle, Islamic town. Roman villa at Los Torrejones (4km).

Nearby natural destinations:

Yecla Steppe, Sierra de Salinas and Sierra del Serral.

Accommodations (Tourism Website):

Restaurants (Tourism Website):
https://rutadelvinoyecla.com/en/

Age of the artistic representations:

Epipalaeolithic – Neolithic.

General description of the destination:

Levantine Rock Art. Cantos de la Visera I: Over 30 representations of large herbivores, especially horses and bovines. Cantos de la Visera II: It contains more figures than the first site, as some 70 motifs include bovines, horses, deer and ibex. There are also schematic animals that appear to be associated with human figures. The paintings are of an outstanding quality and very realistic. They vary in size and in their shades of colour, between red and black.

Museographic resources description:

Didactic panels in the rock-shelter.