Foundation
The Rock Art National Park is situated in the Municipality of Capo di Ponte (BS), in Naquane locality, on the left side of Oglio river.
It was established in 1955 by the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Lombardia (at that time Soprintendenza alle Antichità) thanks to the Superintendent, Mario Mirabella Roberti, and the collaboration of the municipality of Capo di Ponte and the province of Brescia who acquired the
fields and donated them to the State Property (Act dated 08.20.1963, ratified by the Decree of the President of the Republic 26/10/1967 n. 1358 number).
The park, placed between 400 and 600 metres above sea level, covers a territory more than 14 hectares large. It is possible to see 104 engraved rocks -grey-purplish sandstone surfaces (Verrucano Lombardo)-, scattered in a natural environmen dominated by chestnut trees, firs, birches and hornbeams.
On these large surfaces, rounded off and polished by glaciers action, the ancient people living in the Valley produced images, mainly actual or symbolic objects, coming from their everyday life or from their spiritual world.
