Type of site:
Cave
Place of location: Trubia River
Village/Town: Tuñón
Municipality: Santo Adriano de Tuñón (Asturias)
Region: Principado de Asturias
State: Spain
Website: https://www.turismoasturias.es/descubre/cultura/arte-rupestre/rupestre-abrigo-de-santo-adriano
Natural Environment:
The Trubia River valley, a left-bank tributary of the River Nalón. It is a valley enclosed by limestone hillsides covered in native Atlantic forest. The cave, which is not very extensive, opens onto the right bank of the River Trubia, in an area with extensive riverside woodland, not far from a small floodplain formed by the confluence of the Trubia and the Rozapín river, and where the church of Santo Adriano stands, from which the cave takes its name.
Archaeological evidences in the site:
Nalon Valley host one of the most important concentration of Palaeolithic sites of the Cantabrian Region, with caves and rock-shelters very well known like San Román de Candamo, La Viña, Las Caldas, Lluera I and II, Santo Adriano, El Conde, etc., etc. Ten caves at least preserve rock art manifestations. The labelled “Style of Nalon”, composed of engravings located in the vestibules of the caves and shelters, is very appreciate by archaeologists and rock art supporters. Hinds, aurochs, goats and horses are represented by a very few deep lines carved in the limestone.