Age of the artistic representations: The National Archaeological Park of “Massi di Cemmo” kept its importance of sacred area also in the Iron and in the Roman Age, and was dismantled from Christians between the late old age and the early Middle Ages, because considered seat of pagan ceremonies and workships.
General description of the destination: The park opened in October 2005, offers to visitors the possibility to enter into a worship-place with a very long story about our story and our roots. The visit at the park can begin with the reading of the boards set at the entrance, and of those along the short path that leads to the Boulders. The engraved images include animals, weapons and stylized human figures. More than 150 images have been found on this boulder, in some cases they are placed one on the top of the other : deers with big branched horns, does, chamoises with short hook-like horns, wild goats, pigs, wild boards, dogs, oxes, images of daggers and a ploughing scene make up this big engraved composition.
History of the site: Made know for the first time in 1909 by the geographer Gualtiero Laeng in his Touring Club Guide on Piemonte, Lombardia and Canton Ticino, the area of Massi di Cemmo was object of researches and excavations by the archaeologists, begun last century in the Thirties. The other campaigns, made under the direction of the Government Office for Archaeological Goods of Region Lombardia during the Sixties, the Eighties and, with more continuity, from the middle of the Nineties till today, allowed to know better this important megalithic sanctuary which, into an imposing semi-circular building enclosure, contained, besides the two famous Boulders, also a considerable number of illustrated steles. At the moment the steles Cemmo 3 and 4 are on show in the Antiquarium of the Rock-drawings National Park, while the others will find their place in the Prehistoric National Museum of Camonica Valley, which is being created in the building of Villa Agostani in Capodiponte. Near the park, in XIIth century, was built the church S. Siro, a great example of Lombard of Romanic architecture.
Museographic resources description: Didactic information panels are available in the main decorated rocks of the archaeological area.
