In the geography of Nerpio, the action of Nature has carved a great part of the limestone of the Jurassic period to form ravines and steep zones, full of cavities and rocky shelters, where a magnificent evidence of the creative capacity of prehistoric man is represented; the richness of these Art pieces is yet to be understood and appraised by our culture.

The first archaeological remains found in this Cultural Park date back to the Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic Periods; an important collection of Rock Art painting known as "Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin", unmatched by their uniqueness.

These primitive artists lived on hunting and gathering and they painted the caves of this site, these shelters mostly faced the south, or were of easy access; they outlined the images and later on they filled them with flat monochrome painting. The simplicity of the designs and the flat images makes their identification easier.

The Levantine Rock Art is mostly figurative and naturalistic, as opposed to the schematic art, less found in this zone. The main protagonist of these friezes is the man, sometimes as a hunter sometimes as a warrior, sometimes as gatherer, and seldom as an animal tamer or a farmer. Women, when they are depicted in the scenes, are represented as dancers or gatherers.

The most represented animal species are goats, deer, bovines, and equines.

Out of more than 60 shelters of the zone, the sites of "Torcal de las Bojadillas" and "La Solana de las Covachas" in the origin of the headwaters of the Taibilla stream are worth mentioning.

Rock Art is not an aesthetic caprice, and the possibility that it was a mere leisure activity is out of question.

The presumption that these paintings represent a Hunting Sanctuary cannot be totally discarded, but owing to the fact that most of the scenes do not express this activity, we guess that they served other purposes that had not been discovered yet.

The total amount of shelters with Rock Art Paintings in the Cultural Park of Nerpio represents 70% of Castilla La Mancha. It constitutes an unexplained phenomenon, the fact that some millenary prehistoric paintings have been preserved until our time. The use of a resistant pigment as the iron oxide, the location in adequate places, and the progressive fossilization of them and the passage of time have made the survival of this millenary heritage possible.