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Contact Details: Palau de la Generalitat Calle Cavallers, 12
ES-46001 Valencia

Tel: +34 963 86 60 00
Website: www.gva.es
Email: n.d.

Conselleria d’Educació, Cultura i Esport (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports)
Calle Luis Moya Blanco, 261
ES-33203 Gijón

Tel: +34 985 185 860
Website: www.ceice.gva.es
Email: n.d.

Museo de Valltorta –Parque Cultural Valltorta- Gassulla (Valltorta Museum – Valltorta-Gassulla Cultural Park)
Pla de l'Om, s/n
ES-12179 Tírig

Tel: +34 964 336 010
Website: www.museudelavalltorta.gva.es
Email: museo_valltorta@gva.es

Ecomuseo de Bicorp (Bicorp Ecomuseum)
Calle San Roque 11
ES- Bicorp

Tel: +34 962 269 403
Website: www.ecomuseodebicorp.com
Email: info@ecomuseodebicorp.com

Contact Person: Consuelo MATAMOROS (Servei de Patrimoni Cultural / Cultural Heritage Service) / Montserrat LÓPEZ VÁZQUEZ (Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural / General Directorate of Cultural Heritage)

Site Town/Region: Tírig (Castelló, Comunidad Valenciana) / Bicorp (Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana) / Castell de Castells (Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana) / Alcoi (Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana)

Site GPS Location: 40.406422, 0.069572 / 39.131917, -0.787528 / 38.760306, -0.183416 / 38.642806, -0.457223

UNESCO World Heritage List: Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula (1998) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/874)

Description: Governing body of the Valencian Autonomous Community.
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports is in charge of regional powers in the areas of culture and art, cultural heritage and museums, education and sports.
The distinctive elements of the Valltorta-Gassulla Cultural Park are the Levantine rock paintings, rural dry-stone architecture, notable historical buildings, a varied biological environment, and the Valltorta Museum and the Ecomuseum of Bicorp, devoted to rock art (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/valtorta--gasulla).
The paintings at La Sarga (Alcoy, Alicante) belong to the three cycles of post-Palaeolithic rock art in the Mediterranean Basin, and therefore comprise a compendium of artistic expression in the Neolithic and Copper Age (http://www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/alacant-mountain-cultural-park-la-sarga).