...UNESCO Description

Los Tolmos nestles under the shadow of a listed neolithic settlement and the area is privileged to have nearby over 30, UNESCO protected, examples of Iberian Rock Art.  UNESCO describe the area far better than we can.

"Human modification of the landscape that was begun by the first Neolithic communities and accelerated during the historic period has less impact on these upland areas where the hunter-gatherer cultures that created the eastern Spanish art evolved.

The marginal nature of these lands, almost always unsuited to agriculture, has persisted to the present day. As a result they are the last reserves of very interesting biological communities. A number of the most threatened European species of raptors are to be found there, such as the Royal Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), the Partridge Eagle (Hieraetus fasciatus), and the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus).

Among the mammals the rarest species in Europe, the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardina), is still to be found in some of the most representative eastern Spanish art areas, such as Nerpio.... There is still a large number of specimens of the animal most favoured by the prehistoric artists, the Wild Goat (Capra pyrenaica hispanica), in the area with the largest concentration of rock-art sites. The existence side by side of a living fauna and that of the prehistoric art gives these areas the exceptional quality of a timeless landscape."

For more information: Rock Art of the Iberian Peninsula