Join us on an Equinox adventure retreat to the world’s largest collection of petroglyphs in Val Camonica, Italy.

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Val Camonica is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy.

It is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized in Italy, with over 140,000 figures, although new discoveries have progressively increased the total number, bringing them currently up to 300.000.
Not only are the rock drawings a part of UNESCO World Heritage, but the whole valley is also a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.

Among the most famous figures between the thousands of petroglyphs are certainly those called “The Astronauts”, which date back to 8.000 BCE.
Once the Würm glaciation was finished, Valcamonica saw its first inhabitants between 18.000 and 15.000 years ago.

Over an incredible 10,000 years, the engravings were produced at intermittent rates and with varying intensities. Therefore, not so much the quantity as the millenary persistence of the historical tradition is the most amazing element of the engravings, which unfold within a historical cycle that has no equal in European prehistory.

The name “Val Camonica” is derived from the Latin Vallis Camunnorum, “Valley of the Camunni”. Camunni were an ancient population located in Val Camonica during the Iron Age.