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<< Our Photo Pages >> La Cueva de la Peña - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Asturias

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 21 July 2009  Page Views: 6730

Natural PlacesSite Name: La Cueva de la Peña Alternative Name: Peña Candamo, Cueva de San Román
Country: Spain
NOTE: This site is 1.316 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Asturias Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: San Román de Candamo  Nearest Village: San Román de Candamo
Latitude: 43.454970N  Longitude: 6.07299W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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alchemille visited on 1st Apr 1983 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5 the caves are now closed to the public. The only cave I know where there is a paiting of a seal. The caves are on the side of a hill. The village of Candamo is hanging on this hill like an anphytheatre. The area is quaint.

La Cueva de la Peña
La Cueva de la Peña submitted by alchemille : La Peña de San Román de Candamo. Asturias. Spain (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave or Rock Shelter in Asturias

Cave with rock art.

http://tematico.asturias.es/cultura/yacimientos/candamo.html

"The cave of Peña de Candamo was already known in the nineteenth century by the inhabitants of the area, but it was too early to appreciate the significance of the paintings that adorned the walls of the cave. The first news on the hole appears in the Bulletin of the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History in October 1914. The artistic importance of his paintings, the Solutrean and Magdalenian period, is universally recognized. The cave is open to the northwest near the top of a limestone hill that rises above the valley of the Nalón. By a narrow opening (widened after the discovery) is accessed a cave that is about 60 meters long way into the Hall of prints. Meters after the entrance opens onto a hallway and left, somewhat later, on the right descends to the Lower Chamber of the red signs; the bottom of the entrance hall, it opens the Salon of recorded; and the bottom of this, is the way to the Batiscias Gallery. Declared National Monument and prepared for the visit was exploited in a way that, by the treatment they received paintings and engravings, a very serious way degraded the condition of them. This forced the closure of the cave visitors and initiate studies on the conditions inside the cave. Now it can be visited, but with precautions to ensure their conservation."

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La Cueva de la Peña
La Cueva de la Peña submitted by Flickr : IMG_3944 Site in Asturias Spain Cueva de la Pena Höhlenmalereien Image copyright: leivischem [federleicht], hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

La Cueva de la Peña
La Cueva de la Peña submitted by Flickr : IMG_3948 Site in Asturias Spain Cueva de la Pena Höhlenmalereien Image copyright: leivischem [federleicht], hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Peña Candamo by alchemille on Wednesday, 01 May 2013
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Possition:

43.2721 North

6.421 West
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Peña de Candamo by alchemille on Wednesday, 01 May 2013
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Cave from the Solutrean period, upper Palaeolithic, aprox. 18,000 years ago. It holds a collection of figures which include deer, horses, bison, goats, bulls and other animals which are difficult to identify. The Camarín is the most spectacular painted wall in the cave. There are red dots and signs such as lines and other symbols.

Address: 33828 San Román, Candamo (Asturias)

turismo@ayto-candamo.es

http://www.ayto-candamo.es/centro-de-interpretacion

Tel.:+34 985828056

Closing days: Monday
By prior appointment calling Candamo Town Hall, tel: +34 985828056, 9am-2pm.
You should go to Candamo Cavern Visitor Centre one hour before the visit.
Maximum 25 visitors per day. Free admision.
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Re: Peña Candamo by alchemille on Wednesday, 01 May 2013
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La Peña de San Román de Candamo. The cave has always been known by locals of the village of San Román. It comprises three main rooms, interconnected by a system of galleries. I dont know whether this is a legend but somebody told me the cave is several kilometres long as a somebody had the idea to lock a dog in the cave and the poor animal found and alternative way out.
The deepest of the 3 rooms studied at the moment holds the famous Wall of Engravings, The Ante-chamber, the Red Symbols Chamber and the Stalagmitic Slope. The paintings feature several animals, dots and mysterious figures including a wounded stag (as far as I know here in Dordogne we dont have any wounded animals in our caves). In Candamo there is also a big bison, some horses and other anthropomorphic figures. There is even a seal. The river Nalón passes through the village of San Roman.
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