🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Altamira Cave
Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian
Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
El Castillo Cave
Mousterian to Magdalenian ~150–11 ka BP · Neanderthal then Aurignacian to Magdalenian
Monte Castillo reference sequence cave with 40 ka red disks and 150 kyr stratigraphy.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Atapuerca Galería Lower Level
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Atapuerca Galería Lower Level in Castile and León, Atapuerca, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
La Pasiega Cave
Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian
Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Cueva de El Castillo Lower Gallery
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Cueva de El Castillo Lower Gallery in Cantabria, Puente Viesgo, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Temple complex
Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 69 — Spain Region 9
Period Classical · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 69 — Spain Region 9 in Spain Region 9, Spain is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Les Ferreres Aqueduct (Devil's Bridge, Pont del Diable — Tarraco Aqueduct)
Roman Augustan (late Republic to early Principate) · Roman Tarraconensis (Tarraco Colonia)
217-m Augustan double-tier arcade (20 BCE–20 CE) 27 m high — Tarraco's Francolí aqueduct masterpiece.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Siega Verde Rock Engravings – Águeda River
Upper Palaeolithic (Solutrean–Magdalenian) · Solutrean–Magdalenian hunter-gatherers of western Iberia
443 Palaeolithic figures on Águeda schist—UNESCO trans-frontier extension of Côa Valley (20–10k BCE).
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
La Draga – Early Neolithic Lake Dwelling (Banyoles, Catalonia)
Early Neolithic, Cardial–Epicardial (5300 BCE) · Cardial Neolithic fisher-farmers (Iberian Early Neolithic)
5300 BCE Cardial pile dwelling on Lake Banyoles—earliest lake village in Mediterranean with bows and dairy.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Tito Bustillo Cave
Solutrean to Magdalenian ~18–11 ka BP · Magdalenian Cantabrian
Ribadesella polychrome Magdalenian cave sealed until 1968 with 14 ka harpoon culture art.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Berdín Palace
The Berdín Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Berdín; Galician: Pazo de Berdín) is located in the village of Doiras, in Boal, Asturias, Spain.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Siega Verde Rock Art
Gravettian to Magdalenian ~20–11 ka BP · Upper Paleolithic Iberian
2 km open-air schist engravings paired with Côa Valley, 443 Paleolithic pecked figures.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Cave of El Castillo Polychrome
Upper Paleolithic (40,800 BCE Aurignacian to Magdalenian) · Aurignacian, Gravettian, Magdalenian (Homo sapiens & Neanderthal debate)
Cave of El Castillo (Monte Castillo, Puente Viesgo) – UNESCO Paleolithic Cave Art 1985: 40,800-year-old red ochre stencilled hand (U-Th oldest in Europe, possibly Neanderthal), bison, horses, cervids…
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Atapuerca — Gran Dolina and Galería Trench
Early to Middle Pleistocene · Acheulean / Homo antecessor
Key trench complex (Gran Dolina, Galería, Elefante) in Cueva Mayor-Cueva del Silo system, Sierra de Atapuerca, yielding Homo antecessor (850 ka, TD6), Homo heidelbergensis and earliest cannibalism…
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Altamira Polychrome Ceiling Panel North
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Altamira Polychrome Ceiling Panel North in Cantabria, Santillana del Mar, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Ullastret Iberian Cistern 3
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Ullastret Iberian Cistern 3 in Catalonia, Girona, Ullastret, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Lazarraga Palace
The Lazarraga Palace (Basque: Lazarragatarren jauregia, Spanish: Palacio Lazarraga) is a palace located in Zalduondo, Álava, Basque Country, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Rusadir
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Mauri
Punic-Roman cape town beneath Melilla with dye vats and tophet.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Russadir (Melilla)
Phoenician to Modern (7th c BCE–present; peak Punic 5th–3rd c BCE and Roman 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Medieval Spanish
Punic–Roman promontory citadel Russadir forming core of Melilla la Vieja.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Chavarri Palace
The Chavarri Palace (Spanish: Palacio Chávarri) is a building in the Flemish style in the city of Bilbao, the most outstanding around the Elíptica Square.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Holm-Pit
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ruins of Holm-Pit in Andalusia, Spain is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis Cádiz–Gadir – Spartel / Doñana Gadir Atlantis Variant
Claimed 9600 BCE (Gadir Phoenician 1104 BCE) · Phoenician / Plato
Cádiz Erytheia Phoenician 1104 BCE island claimed Atlantis — no 9600 BCE plain Recorded context — Period: Claimed 9600 BCE (Gadir Phoenician 1104 BCE); Culture: Phoenician / Plato; Field status: not…