You walk up a path just over a kilometre long called Cave Paintings at Berzocana (SL-CC 254)), amongst rocks, oak trees and rockroses, and suddenly the shelter appears: unobtrusive, elegant, as if it were there quite by chance… until you get closer, step inside and see the red pigments. Then you stop and try to decipher what our ancestors meant. And you’re already drawn into the story.

The figures — anthropomorphic forms, lines, symbols that look like coded messages — They were probably painted between the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age (4,000 – 1,000 BC) on the hard quartzite. It is no coincidence that they chose this spot; it was imbued with magic long before we described it.

If you add to this rock art the examples found at the coats from the Morales and the Cabritos, along the same route, you’ll gain a clear understanding of the importance of the early settlers in the Villuercas Ibores Jara Geopark.