Rupestrian Cavities, laurae in the province Carthaginensis of Hispania in the Late Antiquity: Les Covetes dels Moros (Bocairent, Valencia).

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Jorge Molina Cerdá

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The rupestrian phenomenon occurs in the whole early christian orb, covering a wide geographic variety which ranges from the deserts of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt up to Ethiopia. As well as the mountainous regions of  Anatolia, Armenia, Greece, balkan, central, danubian and mediterranean Europe. The rupestrian monasteries and hermitages, with a chronology which goes from the third century up to now, since there’s loads of sanctuaries in caves and active monasteries which were founded in the Late Antiquity and the Middle Age. The cavities are situated in a village called Bocairent in the province of Valencia, the ancient Carthaginensis of the Roman Empire and later from the Visigothic kingdom. It is a monastery with lauras (windows) similar to those in places like the great palestinian Laura, already in the fifth century, the lauras near Jerusalem.

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Molina Cerdá, J. (2026) “Rupestrian Cavities, laurae in the province Carthaginensis of Hispania in the Late Antiquity: Les Covetes dels Moros (Bocairent, Valencia)”., Carthaginensia, 42(81), pp. 227–259. doi: 10.62217/carth.589.
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