Santillana, Spain
Cave of Altamira
The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago.
- City
- Santillana
- Country
- Spain
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia