Vilasos or els Vilars Cave

Noguera cave paintings

Cave painting sites have been declared World Heritage sites by UNESCO within the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula. Amongst a series of criteria UNESCO stated that 'the body of works from the prehistoric period represented by the cave paintings from the Mediterranean Basin in eastern Spain is one of the largest collection of sites of cave painting art in all of Europe and is a magnificent representation of human life within a period of mankind's cultural evolution'.