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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Associazione Città Italiane Patrimonio Unesco
Rock Drawings
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
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Arte rupestre della Val Camonica (Rock Drawings in Valcamonica)
Inscription N° 94 1979 C (iii) (vi)
Criterion (iii): bears unique (or at least extraordinary) testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation, either currently existing or from the past.
Criterion (vi): is directly or materially connected to modern events or traditions, by way of ideas, via creeds or artistic or literary works having exceptional universal values (the committee believes that this criterion justifies the inclusion in lists only in exceptional circumstances, when taken together with other cultural or natural criteria).
Valcamonica is an originally area and is in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy. It is home to the greatest complex of rock drawings in Sub-Alpine Italy and there are approximately 250,000 petroglyphs drawn on hundreds of exposed rocks show scenes depicting agriculture, navigation, war and magic.
Inscription N° 94 1979 C (iii) (vi)
Criterion (iii): bears unique (or at least extraordinary) testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation, either currently existing or from the past.
Criterion (vi): is directly or materially connected to modern events or traditions, by way of ideas, via creeds or artistic or literary works having exceptional universal values (the committee believes that this criterion justifies the inclusion in lists only in exceptional circumstances, when taken together with other cultural or natural criteria).
Valcamonica is an originally area and is in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy. It is home to the greatest complex of rock drawings in Sub-Alpine Italy and there are approximately 250,000 petroglyphs drawn on hundreds of exposed rocks show scenes depicting agriculture, navigation, war and magic.
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