Vicente Bayarri, lecturer at the European University of the Atlantic (UNEATLANTICO), is taking part in the International Seminar on New Developments in Rock Art in Southwest Europe, focusing on the preservation and dissemination of rock art, with the aim of projecting Cantabria as a top-level cultural destination in Europe.
The event held in Arredondo brought together leading archaeologists and managers from southwest Europe to discuss the latest developments in the survey and study of rock art, with a special focus on the Altamira cave, the sites of the Côa Valley (Portugal) and Siega Verde, as well as the prehistoric paintings of the Vézère Valley (France).
Organised by the Government of Cantabria and European Rock Art Heritage, the seminar was attended by international experts. Among them, the presence of the lecturer Vicente Bayarri, who contributed his extensive experience in the management and conservation of rock art heritage through his presentation “Digital caves. New technologies applied to the management of the first art” together with Jesús Herrera.
The seminar took place in the Culture and Tourism Meeting Space of the Arredondo Town Hall and included three theoretical sessions dealing with topics such as the management of museums and rock art interpretation centres, rock art tourism and new technologies applied to the conservation of humanity’s first art.
On the second day, participants had the opportunity to take a technical guided tour of the rock art resources of Arredondo, including the great Abrigo de Socueva and its Visigothic hermitage, as well as a cave with rock art.
The event was presented by the councillors of Economy, Luis Ángel Agüeros, and Culture, Eva Guillermina Fernández, together with the mayor of Arredondo, Leoncio Carrascal. The president of the Cantabrian Network for Rural Development, Fernando Franco, and the president of the Departmental Council of La Dordogne and head of the Council of Europe’s Cultural Itinerary PRAT-CARP, Germinal Peiro, also took part in the event.