Parque Arqueológico Cueva Pintada
The Painted Cave—Museo y Parque Arqueológico Cueva Pintada—turned a discovered rock shelter into one of the Canary Islands’ best-preserved windows on pre-Hispanic life. It sits in Gáldar, about 27 km west of Las Palmas, and was formally recognized as an archaeological museum and park within a framework tied to the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Historic Heritage and Museums and the town council of Gáldar. Its story begins in 1862, when agricultural work revealed the cave through a hole in its roof. The so-called official discovery came in 1873, after José Ramos Orihuela visited. Over the following years, visitors left a paper trail: Gregorio Chil y Naranjo briefly mentioned it in 1876, while Diego Ripoche produced drawings in 1882 and even noted corpses, pots, and other utensils. …
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