"Our world’s caves are places of wonder, mystery and majestic beauty. Show caves around the world are embracing their role in protecting and preserving caves and providing a place for people to learn about these special, natural, cultural and historical resources.
Show caves also play another important nature tourism role of sustainable economic development, providing jobs, and helping the economy of their regions.”
The council of Europe Cultural routes
Prehistoric Rupestral Art in Europe is the art of the first europeans
is the first major cultural , social and symbolic expression that the we hold of Humanity . It appeared in Europe 35 000 years ago and grows throughout the Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, the Copper Age and the Bronze and until Early Iron Age in some regions.
It consists of figurative manifestations and schematic forms and abstact shapes, realized by means of drawings, paintings or ptints on the walls of caves, rocky outcrops and cats in the outdoors and also some megalithic buildings.
The Europestral Art is a common heritage that must be preserved enhanced and promoted as a cultural ressource for tourism. The project includes more than 100 destinations of the greatest scientific, cultural, artistic and archeological value, all open to public. The cultural offer has always been thought with the aim of sustainable preservation. Theses sites allow a first approach to knowledge of cave art, allowing visitors to the thrill of being back to an original production of an important symbolic value
In Pontevedra Galicia Spain last 26 od may we , all the members of this new network , received the oficial diploma from Methilde Fuhrer and Michel Thomas Penette Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage - Council of Europe .
