Government of Castile and León / Junta de Castilla y León
- Cultural Route
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- TRANSROMANICA – The Romanesque Routes of European Heritage
- Cluniac Sites in Europe
- Prehistoric Rock Art Trails
- European Routes of Emperor Charles V
- Country
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- Spain
- Member Category
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- Regional Authority
- Museum
- Heritage Site
- Member Status
- Individual
- Year of Accession to Membership
- 2016 [Cluniac Sites in Europe] / 2008 [TRANSROMANICA - The Romanesque Routes of European Heritage] / 2010 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 2017 [European Routes of Emperor Charles V]
- Contact Details
- Plaza Castilla y León, 1
ES-47008 Valladolid
Tel: +34 983 411 100
Website: www.jcyl.es
Email: n.d.
Consejería de Cultura y Turismo (Ministry of Culture and Tourism)
Avenida del Real Valladolid, s/n.
ES-47014 Valladolid
Tel: +34 983 411 800
Website: www.jcyl.es
Email: n.d.
Museo Numantino de Soria (Museo Numantino in Soria)
Paseo el Espolón, 8
ES-42001 Soria
Tel: +34 975 221 397
Website: www.turismosoria.es/que-ver/museos/museo-numantino
Email: museo.soria[at]jcyl.es
Museo de Segovia (Museo of Segovia)
Casa del Sol
Calle del Socorro, 11
ES-40003 Segovia
Tel: +34 921 460 613
Website: www.turismocastillayleon.com/es/arte-cultura-patrimonio/museos/museo-segovia
Email: n.d.
Museo de León (Museum of León)
Plaza de Santo Domingo, 8
ES-24002 León
Tel: +34 987 236 405
Website: www.museodeleon.com
Email: museo.leon[at]jcyl.es
Cueva de los Enebralejos (Los Enebralejos Cave)
Travesía Cueva, s/n
ES-40165 Prádena
Tel: +34 921 50 71 13
Website: www.cuevadelosenebralejos.es
Email: enebralejos[at]ociogestur.es
Zona Arqueológica - Estación Arqueológica de Arte Rupestre de Siega Verde (Archaeological Rock Art Site of Siega Verde)
Puente La Unión
ES-37497 Villar de la Yegua
Tel: +34 923 480 198 / + 34 653 781 071
Website: www.siegaverde.es
Email: visitas[at]siegaverde.es
- Contact Person
- Laura CUEVAS ORTIZ (Directorate-General of Cultural Heritage; Planning, Research and Dissemination Service) [TRANSROMANICA - The Romanesque Routes of European Heritage] / Jesús DEL VAL (Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural / Directorate General for Cultural Heritage) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Javier RAMÍREZ UTRILLA (Dirección General de Turismo / Directorate General for Tourism; Fundación Siglo para el Turismo y las Artes de Castilla y León) [European Routes of Emperor Charles V]
- Main Town/Region
- Valladolid (Castile and León)
- Site Town/Region
- Soria (Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Fuentetoba (Golmayo, Soria, Castile and León)[Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Segovia (Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / León (Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Merindad de Sotoscueva (Burgos, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Domingo García (Segovia, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Burgomillodo (Carrascal del Río, Segovia, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Prádena (Segovia, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Villar de la Yegua (Salamanca, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / El Raso (Candeleda, Ávila, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Muñopepe (Ávila, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Sésamo (Vega de Espinareda, León, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / La Alberca (Salamanca, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / Yecla de Yeltes (Salamanca, Castile and León) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails]
- Main GPS Location
- 41.610533, -4.748839
- Site GPS Location
- 41.764820, -2.470243 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 41.809884, -2.545019 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 41.775637, -2.561410 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.950289, -4.128946 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 42.737042,-6.673763 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 42.598593, -5.571514 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 43.034085, -3.664898 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 41.107757, -4.369530 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 41.327159, -3.873218 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 41.146460, -3.677211 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.697445, -6.661846 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.199667, -5.347750 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.637589, -4.814772 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.460575, -6.145380 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails] / 40.947152, -6.488545 [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails]
- UNESCO World Heritage List
- Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct (1985) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/311) / Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain (1993) whc.unesco.org/en/list/669 / Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches (2007) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/348) / Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde (1998) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/866) [Prehistoric Rock Art Trails]
- European Heritage Label
- N/D
- Other Heritage Labels
- UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Romanesque Cultural Enclave in the North of Castile-Leon and the South of Cantabria (1998) (whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1017) [TRANSROMANICA - The Romanesque Routes of European Heritage]
- Description
- Governing body of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Government of Castile and León is in charge of regional powers in the areas of culture and art, cultural heritage, sports and tourism.
The main Romanesque site of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos (Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos) is located in Castile and León.
The Museo Numantino in Soria hosts the Villalba palaeolithic plate, an outstanding engraved object of Late Solutrean or Early Magdalenian (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/the-villalba-paque).
The Museum of Segovia hosts a number of small schist and slate plaques and flat cobblestones are decorated with finely-incised engravings, representing horses in a naturalistic style, geometric designs with parallel lines, and other geometric motifs from Late Magdalenian (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/estebanvela-plaques).
At the Museum of León is preserved the Idol of Tabuyo del Monte, a large, nearly rectangular slab of schist with an incised engraving representing a schematic anthropomorph (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/tabuyo-del-monte-idol).
The open air rock site of Domingo García forms one of the most important groups of open-air engravings in Iberia, together with Siega Verde and Foz Côa (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/domingo-garcia-openair-site).
The complex in Prádena (Segovia), which includes Los Enebralejos Cave, a Visitors’ Centre and a reconstruction of the settlement (www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/eneblalejos-cave).
At the Siega Verde Rock Art Site a total of 540 figures in 17 groups form the largest ensemble of Palaeolithic engravings in Spain (http://www.prehistour.eu/carp-guide/siega-verde-rockart-site).
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