Ancient site · Spain · Still standing
Cave of Altamira
The Cave of Altamira is a limestone cave complex in Cantabria, Spain, famed for its Upper Paleolithic polychrome cave paintings and charcoal drawings of animals and hand stencils. The decorated cavities include a principal painted ceiling and a series of twisting passages and chambers with painted panels along their walls.
First raised
1300 BC
Its prime
14000 BC
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 14000 BC
The shape it held in its prime.
A sinuous limestone cave 270 m long with twisting passages and chambers, walls and vaulted ceilings of textured calcite and fractured rock, varying in height from about 2 to 6 metres. Surfaces are painted with diluted blacks, ochres and reds: multi‑coloured bison and horses sweep across a vaulted Polychrome Ceiling, hand‑stencils and abstract claviform marks punctuate walls, and natural bulges and seams of the rock are used to give animals a three‑dimensional effect under low lamp light.
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