Roca dels Moros is one of the oldest sacred sites in Catalonia, a “sanctuary” frequented from the era of the last hunter-gatherer groups until the Middle Ages. The representations that can be found here refer to traditions, beliefs and rituals inherited from generation to generation over the millennia.

The iconography depicts scenes of a ritual and symbolic nature, including human and wild animal figures often interacting. 

The engravings and animal paintings reveal a major knowledge of local fauna. Goats, bulls, deer and wild boar are common Mediterranean fauna animals.

These representations imply a way of understanding and explaining their world. The artists expressed their relationship with their surroundings, their links with nature and at the same time how they participated in their environment. We witness a stag hunting scene and other enigmatic interactions between human and animal figures. 

Among the main figures in the mural are women. The composition of the female figures is still a challenge for interpretation and point of debate, as the time that separates us from their male and/or female authors does not allow us to ascertain their meaning with certainty.

One of the great research challenges is to understand what it is that distinguishes this place and has made it last so long.

It is to understand what motivated the people who lived in the area to return again and again to appropriate the place until it became sacred and socially significant.