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The Cova de l'Or archaeological site will close to the public next Sunday until mid-March 2025 to avoid adverse weather conditions. The CV MARQ Foundation manages together with the Beniarrés Town Council This proposal offers visitors a complete tour of both the Interpretation Centre and the site itself.
The days 23 and 24 November will be the last of this season to visit the emblematic enclave and those interested may book your ticket o for more information, please see www.marqalicante.com.
Managed by the Diputación de Alicante, the Cova de L'Or enclave is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Neolithic period on the peninsula, and has been declared an archaeological site of the Bien de Interés Cultural. For more than three years it has been receiving organised groups of guided visits that culminate in the cave, an interesting route of cultural and scenic interest that begins at the interpretation centre, located in the town centre of Beniarrés. Close to three thousand people have already enjoyed this heritage and nature itinerary The first-rate museum that has become an important historical reference point.
The Cova de l'Or de Beniarrés is located 675 metres above sea level, on the southern slope of the group of reliefs that make up the Benicadell mountain range. It contains an archaeological site of enormous importance for the knowledge and research of the Neolithic of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The quality and significance of the archaeological material found in the excavations carried out since the 1930s suggest that the cave was a place of social reference for settlers of Mediterranean origin who, at the time of the excavations, had been living in the area. mid-6th millennium BCintroduced in these valleys the practice of the agriculture and livestock farming.
In the Cova de l'Or, material elements have been found that bear witness to the importance of the occupation in the Early Neolithic (5500-5000 B.C.)The enclave was an ideal place for habitation. It is to this historical period that the wheat and barley seed accumulationsThe pottery is also found in the interior, as well as the ceramics printed with shells, especially those decorated with human figures with their arms raised, alone in a praying position or in a group evoking a dance.
The symbolism of this pottery is defined within the movable aspect of the Macroschematic ArtThis links the cave to the Rock Art sanctuaries of that chronology, such as La Sarga (Alcoy) or Pla de Petracos (Castell de Castells), and the Cova de l'Or may have been part of some kind of ritual cycle linked to these meeting and gathering places.
