Benaoján is just outside once the most spectacular caves in Spain and in the mouth of one, several galleries and cave paintings dating as far back as 30 thousand years Paleolithic inhabitants Ronda Serranía, and best of all, the caves are open to the public with a local guide to the meaning of art to explain observed.
Tours often the kick-off asset chagrin of tourists are said to arrive on time, especially since the entrance to the cave is forbidden to start the tour, and visitors should plan to arrive before 10:00 and 13:00 for 90 minutes for this trip.
Pileta sits 670 m above sea level, and the entrance to a cave about 40 m above the steep path to walk to the parking lot, but inside the cave, often our clients find the experience very friendly and really sick people, even travel to enjoy the good state, the rubber soles are recommended.
The cave belongs to a local family to arrange tours of the same family, and although the caves are now available in a man falsely, that I want to step back in time as you, because your party members dating back to the kerosene lamps Time Bandit.
Caves re-discovered after hundreds or thousands of years may have ended only in 1905 by Jose Lobato Bullon, a man who belongs to the land around when he realized that bats lived in the area of ??the mountain. their manure, fertilizer, surprised many pictures on the walls and fragments of pottery and human bones on the floor to explore the cave.
Probably artifacts were Moorish times and then leave in search of his day, 1911, when retired British colonel heard the paintings and decided to immediately check and their significance.
Since that time, many discoveries of animal bones left more than 30,000 years, and was one of the main lines of evidence Serranía paintings of people's migration in southern Europe.
See paintings, including portraits of cows, birds, deer, dolphins, turtles, humans, fish and a number of rules, which seemed to form the old calendar. The exact meaning of many of the images have not yet been deciphered, but it did not prevent the owners of the cave was opened to the public, so you can enjoy seeing what our ancestors in cave walls.
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