ORCE
Fossils and scenes showing the wildlife and landscape of over a million years ago
DIGITISED HERITAGE
Sites holding some of the oldest human traces in Europe, a Bronze Age settlement and a village of fortress, palaces and cave houses on the Granada Altiplano.
A fortified Copper and Bronze Age settlement with an ancient water channel, about 3 km from Orce.
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A human milk tooth about 1.4 million years old was found here.
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A site about 1.6 million years old with a large collection of fossil fauna; at Venta Micena 3, the bones have been interpreted as the giant hyena's den.
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Where gullies open today there was once a lake, and on its shore the first humans of the basin knapped stone.
Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 are around 1.4 million years old.
JOSEP GIBERT MUSEUM
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Alcazaba de las Siete Torres (Fortress of the Seven Towers)
A fortress in the centre of Orce, with its keep and parade ground, protected as a Site of Cultural Interest.
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Church of Santa María de la Anunciación
A parish church rebuilt between 1749 and 1775, of which only the tower is older.
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Palacio de los Segura and Tourist Office
A 17th and 18th-century manor house with a columned courtyard, now home to the Municipal Tourist Office.
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LOWER PLEISTOCENE
One of the sites with the oldest human traces in Western Europe, on the shore of an ancient wetland.
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First Settlers of Europe Museum
An interpretation centre with fossils from Venta Micena, Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3.
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Fourth stage of the Great Path: 12 km along the River Orce valley and past Cerro de la Virgen to Orce.
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