Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, in Lombardy the first Italian Unesco World Heritage Site

Mar 12, 2021 623

In Val Camonica, you discover that art was born first. Since the beginning, this was an urgent need also for magical, religious and superstition reasons. If you visit these places, you are catapulted into a very ancient age, dating back to even before any complex civilization. Before the Greeks and Romans, before any ancient emperor, before Plato, Hercules, Aristotle or Cicero.

We can learn a lot by visiting Val Camonica, the place par excellence in Italy to admire the cave paintings. In fact we can immediately say that more than paintings, it is instead of engravings or technically we speak of "petroglyphs" or even simply "graffiti". The landscapes in the surroundings are unmissable: natural and archaeological parks and reserves.

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