The lands of Guadalajara offer, who visits them, mills. Cheese And even cave paintings of incalculable value from the archaeological point of view. And it is that in the small but very valuable town of Riba de Saelices we can find a legendary cave whose Treasury was discovered in 1935.
Specifically, it was baptized as the Cave of the Casares, its space reaches the 400 meters long and this Composed of more than 200 engravings and cave paintings. So many and of so much value that they have made it a reference of the Paleolithic in regard to the Iberian Peninsula.
Experts consider that these are pieces of enormous antiquity, placing them between 15,000 and 30,000 yearsbut they also agree that the content is very valuable, since they could constitute the first drawings about human reproduction, including pregnancy and childbirth. There are also logically human and animal figures (Panthers, bears, deer, horses, hyenas, wolves, rhinos, marmotes or beavers).
In full civil war
Currently, the University of Alcalá de Henares organizes research campaigns inside and is already part of the network of archaeological parks and deposits of Castilla La Mancha. The intention, logically, is to encourage research, conservation and public use of the legacy found in the middle of the Civil War.
Riba de Saelices is a beautiful and small town of, according to the latest data, Only 94 inhabitants. It limits with the high Alcarria and the lordship of Molina de Aragón, two lands and two very different regions.
The cave, considered a national monument, is part of an old Hispanomusulm village crowned by an Islamic tower, in whose environment the cave opens. Very close to the deposit it is also possible to see Remains of the Civil War, like trenches or forts.
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