Cantabria, Spain · Tradition
Prehistoric/Megalithic sacred sites in Cantabria, Spain
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Altamira Cave
Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, Spain
Above Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, a cave ceiling holds bison, horses, and a doe painted in polychrome ochre and manganese, the oldest marks on its walls dated to more...
Covalanas Cave
Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Spain
Covalanas Cave holds one of Cantabria's clearest surviving galleries of Paleolithic art: red ochre hinds built from dabbed fingertip dots rather than continuous lines,...
El Castillo Cave
Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain
On a hillside above Puente Viesgo, El Castillo Cave preserves more than 150,000 years of intermittent human presence and a red ochre disk dated to over 40,800 years old —...
Las Monedas Cave
Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain
Discovered in 1952 on the same hillside as El Castillo, Las Monedas holds a Magdalenian-period animal panel drawn in charcoal roughly 12,000 to 13,000 years ago —...
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