🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Cave del Valle (Cantabria)
Cave del Valle (Spanish: Cueva del Valle, The Valley's Cave), locally also known as La Viejarrona (Old Girl), is located near El Cerro Village in the municipality of Rasines in Cantabria, northern…
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Altamira Cave
Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian
Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Cueva de El Castillo Lower Gallery
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Cueva de El Castillo Lower Gallery in Cantabria, Puente Viesgo, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Altamira Polychrome Ceiling Panel North
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Altamira Polychrome Ceiling Panel North in Cantabria, Santillana del Mar, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Altamira — Ancillary Polychrome Ceiling Segment
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Altamira — Ancillary Polychrome Ceiling Segment in Cantabria, Santillana del Mar, Spain is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Cave of Chufín
The cave of Chufín is located in the town of Riclones in Rionansa (Cantabria), Spain. Situated at the confluence of the Lamasón and Nansa rivers, several caves ornamented with rock art pock the steep…
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
El Castillo Cave
Mousterian to Magdalenian ~150–11 ka BP · Neanderthal then Aurignacian to Magdalenian
Monte Castillo reference sequence cave with 40 ka red disks and 150 kyr stratigraphy.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
La Pasiega Cave
Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian
Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Cave of El Castillo Polychrome
Upper Paleolithic (40,800 BCE Aurignacian to Magdalenian) · Aurignacian, Gravettian, Magdalenian (Homo sapiens & Neanderthal debate)
Cave of El Castillo (Monte Castillo, Puente Viesgo) – UNESCO Paleolithic Cave Art 1985: 40,800-year-old red ochre stencilled hand (U-Th oldest in Europe, possibly Neanderthal), bison, horses, cervids…
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Juliobriga
Juliobriga (Spanish: Julióbriga, Latin: Iuliobriga, Ancient Greek: Ἰουλιόβριγα) was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria, as stated by numerous Latin authors including Pliny the Elder.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Cave of El Soplao
El Soplao (Cantabrian: El Sopláu) is a cave located in the municipalities of Rionansa, Valdáliga and Herrerías in Cantabria, Spain.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
El Mirón Cave
The El Mirón Cave is a large cave in the upper Asón River valley towards the eastern end of Cantabria in northern Spain, near the border of the Basque country.