In the middle of the Bronze Age, sometime between 2100 and 1500 BCE, a group of people settled on a cliff more than 60 metres above a strategic north-south route outside what is now the village of Garcinarro, about 85 kilometres east-southeast of Madrid in the province of Cuenca. Iberians occupied it around 400 BCE, and later Romans, then Visigoths, each building on top of it. When archeologists started working the 8 hectare site known as La Cava in 2014, they found the largest known Iberian building; 70 square metres, with three rooms more than 3 metres high.
     Besides the building, the complex includes the remains of a Bronze Age settlement, a rampart from that period, and a rocky surface covered with hundreds of small holes. There is also a 7 metre deep, 70-metre long pre-Roman rock-cut gallery, and dozens of coves which would have been occupied during the Visigoth era.
     The building's rooms are lined with wall recesses and basins, and on the floors it is still possible to detect evidence of hearths and even the imprints of tables. Finds include ceramics, brooches, and tools from the Iberian era, fragments of terra sigillata tableware from the Roman era, and metal pieces from the Visigoths.

Edited from El Pais (1 August 2019)