After several years of forced closure to allow the recovery of its prehistoric paintings, La Peña Cave may now be visited by a small number of people for a short time each year, which means that the demand for visits exceeds the limited supply. The Interpretation Centre will thus help to alleviate many of these unsatisfied desires.
Via life-size 3D representations, the centre displays the main sets of existing Palaeolithic paintings and engravings in La Peña Cave and is aimed at providing better understanding, knowledge and dissemination of Asturian Palaeolithic art, specifically that found in La Peña Cave.
Valdes-Bazán Mansion is a stately country house, built in the early 17th century, located in the village of San Román. It has several rooms devoted to the activities carried out in the borough, including a public library, conference room, computer rooms and multipurpose rooms (for craft workshops, etc.).
It also houses a temporary exhibition hall and two educational displays devoted to La Peña Cave. This cave is located right in the village of San Román. Access is restricted to groups of 25 people a day during the months of July, August and the first fortnight of September; prior booking is required at Candamo Town Hall.
The cave contains paintings and engravings made during the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods (18,000-13,000 BC)
