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Prehistoric/Megalithic sacred sites in 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...
Cancho Roano
Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain
Cancho Roano stands in the Extremaduran plain as the best-preserved building of Tartessian civilization, an Iron Age Iberian culture shaped by strong Phoenician influence....
Castro de Baroña
Porto do Son, A Coruña, Spain
Castro de Baroña is a fortified Iron Age settlement occupied roughly from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD, its circular stone house foundations perched on a...
Cave of La Pileta
Benaoján, Málaga, Spain
Discovered by a farmer searching for bat guano in 1905, Cueva de la Pileta in Málaga province holds hundreds of paintings and engravings made across an extraordinary span...
Cave of Los Letreros
Vélez-Blanco, Almería, Spain
High on a cliff above Vélez-Blanco, Cueva de los Letreros holds around 174 red-ochre figures painted by Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities — among them the Indalo, a...
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,...
Dolmen de Lácara
La Nava de Santiago, Badajoz, Spain
Raised from seven granite orthostats on the Extremaduran meseta between the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, the Dolmen de Lácara is among the largest and...
Dolmen de Soto
Trigueros, Huelva, Spain
Dolmen de Soto is a Chalcolithic passage grave near Trigueros, Huelva, built around 2500-3000 BC by dismantling and repurposing an even older sanctuary of standing stones....
Dolmen of Axeitos
Ribeira, A Coruña, Spain
Raised roughly six thousand years ago on Galicia's Barbanza Peninsula, the Dolmen of Axeitos is a Neolithic portal tomb of eight granite orthostats supporting a single...
Dolmen of Dombate
Cabana de Bergantiños, A Coruña, Spain
Built and enlarged across the 4th millennium BCE on Galicia's Costa da Morte, the Dombate dolmen holds one of the rarest survivals in Iberian megalithic art: painted...
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 —...
El Pindal Cave
Ribadedeva, Asturias, Spain
El Pindal Cave opens above the Cantabrian coast near Ribadedeva, Asturias, its narrow gallery carrying Magdalenian-period paintings made roughly 18,000 to 13,000 years ago....
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 —...
Monte Santa Trega Hillfort
A Guarda, Pontevedra, Spain
Monte Santa Trega rises 341 meters above the meeting point of the Miño river and the Atlantic, carrying two layers of history in one climb: the excavated stone foundations...
Numancia
Garray, Soria, Spain
Numantia is the excavated hilltop stronghold above Soria where the Arevaci, a Celtiberian people, resisted Rome for two decades before a final siege under Scipio...
Siega Verde Archaeological Site
Castillejo de Martín Viejo, Salamanca, Spain
Along a quiet bend of the Águeda river, hunter-gatherers scratched horses, aurochs, and deer into bare schist tens of thousands of years ago....
Tito Bustillo Cave
Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain
Rediscovered in 1968 after a rockfall had sealed its entrance, Tito Bustillo holds Upper Paleolithic art spanning some 20,000 years, from a 33,000-year-old androgynous...
Ullastret Iberian City
Ullastret, Girona, Spain
Ullastret is a walled hilltop settlement of the Indigetes, the Iberian people who ruled this stretch of Catalan coast before Rome....
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