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The Department of Tourism Cehegín, led by Francisco in April, has applied for a grant to the Ministry of Culture to highlight the value of the paintings in the caves of the Peña Rubia, declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1998 to them to be visited.

Last October, the mayor of Tourism and the Municipal Archaeological Museum director, Francisco Peñalver, attended a course in the town of Mula, to receive training on how it should manage those assets.

Now, the next step was to ask for this assistance to the Government, which work to convert the caves and their paintings in a tourist resort over Cehegín.

According to April, "the caves of the Peña Rubia, or more specifically the rock paintings found them, along with the other Mediterranean cave paintings are the only World Heritage declared by UNESCO, with which the region has Murcia, and probably you will have for a long time. "

To this end, the Council has developed a very demanding project, which envisages the creation of a center of reception and interpretation of Peña Rubia caves in the foothills of the mountain, the construction of paths that make it easy access to the caves, explanatory signage installation and indicators as well as provide electrical service and lighting to some caves, and the construction of a large steel sculpture by the authoring Cut me to the reproduction of one of the paintings, the figure of an archer hunting , which would also serve as a lure.

It was also intended to perform in one of the caves a simulation of how prehistoric people made their tombs painted on the walls.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín