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<< Text Pages >> Cuciulat Cave - Rock Art in Romania

Submitted by mfrincu on Wednesday, 26 August 2015  Page Views: 2102

Rock ArtSite Name: Cuciulat Cave
Country: Romania
NOTE: This site is 63.672 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Zalau  Nearest Village: Cuciulat
Latitude: 47.317608N  Longitude: 23.410219E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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The first cave paintings discovered in Romania. Nowadays the entrance of the cave collapsed and the access is blocked.

The cave contains the first cave paintings discovered in Romania. Among them the Cuciulat Horse (painted in red color) is the most famous one. They are the first occurrence of such paintings in the SE Europe and date back to the paleolithic age. According to archaeologists it represents the missing link between the paintings in France, Spain and Russia. In 2008 the entrance to the cave collapsed and it is no longer accessible to the public.
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