Bélesta Castle Museum

Proudly overlooking the village, the Bélesta Castle Museum is an iconic landmark that blends heritage, archaeology, and local history . Built on the hillside, it now houses a modern and engaging museum focused on major archaeological discoveries, particularly Neolithic remains. The archaeological collections of the Bélesta Castle Museum originate from the Cauna de Bélesta cave site. On display are ceramics offered to the deceased, buried in the Middle Neolithic burial chamber (4500 BC), as well as a wealth of artifacts from the cave's main entrance chamber: worked bones used as tools for making clothing, spindle whorls (clay balls used to weight the spindle), polished axes made of hard stone, bone needles, millstones for producing flour, and more. The accessible and engaging museum experience blends objects, models, videos, and reconstructions to bring to life the lives of the region's first inhabitants. A must-see for anyone wanting to delve into the deep roots of the Catalan territory, between the distant past and collective memory.