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Cave paintings
Iberians, Greeks and Romans
L’Hospital del Coll de Balaguer
La Torre de l’Illot del Torn. Defence tower.
Molí de Vandellòs. Interpretation Centre for Olive Oil
Ca la Torre
The fortifications of the Civil War
El Pla de l’Albercoquer ammunition dump
The Masies (country villas)
Masia de Castelló
El Poblat Hifrensa village by Antonio Bonet Castellana
The gegants (giants) of Prince Peter of Aragon and Blanche of Anjou
The gegant (giant) of Friar Celestí
El Cavallet de Mar / The Seahorse
El Boc (The Billy Goat)
Els Capgrossos (Big-Heads)
L’Home dels Nassos (The Man of the Noses)
Ball de diables de l’Hospitalet de l’Infant (Dance of the Devils)
Colla de diablos de Vandellòs troupe
Cave paintings
The cave paintings discovered in the L’Escoda cave, Racó d’en Perdigó cave and D’en Carles cave serve as proof of Neolithic occupation in the Tivissa-Vandellòs mountains.
In a land of intricate terrain, the caves and caverns were the places where men and women who lived on this land between approximately the year 6000 and 1000 B.C. expressed their symbolic universe through cave paintings. They depicted human figures, some as archers, as well as deer and goats.
These paintings, like those of over 750 archaeological sites around the Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula, were declared World Heritage in the year 1998, as they represent a unique demonstration that bears witness to the progression from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture and livestock societies.