Age of the artistic representations: The Naquane rock drawings belong to a period of time which goes from the Neolithic (VIth-IVth century B.C) to the Iron Age (Ist century B.C); there can be also recognized resumptions in historic , Roman, modern and contemporary age.
General description of the destination: Here is an ideal itinerary that, starting from the entrance of the park, will lead you through the visit to the most interesting rocks. At the entrance we can find big surface, totally engraved with representations of praying people, warriors (some of them very big), buildings, footprints and inscriptions in North-Etruscan types. We can meet too Rock with an interesting building-image, rich in details. But the most famous rock is the rock with the image of god “Cernunnos”, a divinity of the Celtic transalpine world. In the middle part of the rock, we can see two little axes-halberds, engraved with thread-like technique, that can be dated back between IIIrd and Ist century b.c. Some other metres and we come in front of the biggest and most famous rock of the park, “Big Rock”, which offers an extraordinary range of engravings among which particulary interesting are the looms with vertical structure, the spades-representations, the socalled “maze”, the many scenes of deer-hunting and the images of horsemen. We can discover too a nice representation of a 4-wheel wagon drawn by horses.
History of the site: The Rock-Drawings National Park, born in 1955 as first Italian Archaeological Park, totally includes more than 100 engraved rocks, on whose surfaces, smoothed and covered from the action of glaciers, the ancient inhabitants of the valley engraved images, real and symbolic, from their daily life and their spiritual worl.
Museographic resources description: Didactic information panels are available in the main decorated rocks of the archaeological area.