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Val Camonica
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| Rock Drawings in Valcamonica* | |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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| State Party |  Italy |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | iii, vi |
| Reference | 94 |
| Region† | Europe and North America |
| Inscription History | |
| Inscription | 1979 (3rd Session) |
| * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. † Region as classified by UNESCO. |
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Val Camonica is a valley in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy, Italy. It is the upper valley of the river Oglio, upstream from Lake Iseo. Most of Val Camonica lies in the northern part of the province of Brescia.
It is home to the greatest complex of rock drawings in sub-Alpine Italy, with approximately 350,000 petroglyphs drawn by members of the Camunni tribe on hundreds of exposed rocks dating from about 8000 BC; cosmological, figurative, and cartographic motifs are featured, in some locations forming monumental hunting and ritual `scenes´. It includes also scenes of zoophilia.
The best-known drawings were first discovered in 1909 by Walter Laeng, a Brescian geographer. He announced his finding of two carvings on two boulders on the Pian del Greppe near Cemmo.
Since the 1950s, the imagery from thousands of rock surfaces has been `catalogued´, in a vast, on-going project of transcription and classification. In 1979, UNESCO included these samples to its World-wide Patrimony listing of rock art.
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The Val Camonica has different areas of tourism interest:
- Winter Sports:Ponte di Legno, Borno, Montecampione, Aprica
- Mineral spa: Boario, Angolo Terme.
- Parks about Petroglyph: Park of Naquane, Seradina e Bedolina in Capo di Ponte; Riserva naturale dei comuni di Ceto Cimbergo e Paspardo a Nadro; Park of Luine in Darfo Boario Terme.
- Roman town: Cividate Camuno.
- Medieval town: Bienno, Pescarzo of Capo di Ponte.
- Castles: Breno, Gorzone, Cimbergo.
- Museums and tematics parks: Roman Museum in Cividate Camuno; Museum Camillo Golgi in Corteno Golgi; Museum of Guerra Bianca a Temù; Archeopark in Darfo Boario Terme.
- Churches: Pieve of San Siro, Monastero of San Salvatore in Capo di Ponte; Santa Maria della neve in Pisogne; Chiesa di Sant Antonio a Breno; Santa Maria Annunziata, santuario del Cristo Re in Bienno; Santa Maria Assunta in Esine.
- Mountains excursions: CAI paths into Adamello Park, trench of first world war.
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- Parks of Valle Camonica on Wikimapia
- Itinera in Valcamonica (EN)
- Italian World Heritage Sites
- National museum and archaeological park with roman theatre and amphitheatre
- Valcamonica Rock Art, records and pictures
- EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art database, 50 Valcamonica rock art records
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| Location | Italy Lombardy (Province of Bergamo • Province of Brescia) |  |
| Settlements | Castro · Costa Volpino · Iseo · Lovere · Marone · Monte Isola · Paratico · Parzanica · Pisogne · Predore · Riva di Solto · Sale Marasino · Sarnico · Solto Collina · Sulzano · Tavernola Bergamasca | |
| Islands | Monte Isola | |
| Rivers | Bagnadore · Borlezza · Curatelo · Masagolo · Oglio · Portazzolo · Rino | |
| Valleys | Val Camonica | |