Parco Comunale Archeologico e Minerario di Sellero

Archaelogical and mining park of Sellero

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46.056987, 10.343691

Type of site:
Archaeological site

Village/Town:
Municipality: (Brescia)
Region: Lombardía
State: Italy
Telephone: (+34) 0364637009
Website: http://www.comune.sellero.bs.it/
E-mail: info@comune.sellero.bs.it

Natural Environment:

Set in High Valley, on the right hydrographic side, at a medium height between 500 and 800 metres above sea level, the park includes more than 100 engraved rocks, distributed in the localities of Carpene-Fradel-Berco, Preda Mola-Castello. Other groups of rocks are known also in locality Isù-Barnil.

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Age of the artistic representations:

The engravings cover a period of time between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (IInd-Ist century B.C).

General description of the destination:

The park, for which is being defined the project of setting up, will be in the future endowed with equipped routes, with didactical and enjoyable displays. Particular care will be reserved also for its linkingn through a historic, plurithematic route, to the mining area of Carona, northern form the park, under way of exploitation. For example we can visit a group of about 20 rocks among which rises the so-called “Big Rock”, a large surface on which have been engraved more than 700 representations. We can complete our visit going down to Coren, another area with engraved rocks from where branches off a path that leads back to Sellero.

Museographic resources description:

Didactic information panels are available in the main decorated rocks of the archaeological area.