Bison of Altamira

The real “Sistine Chapel of cave art”, found in a cave in Cantabria in 1879. The remarkable part is that the prehistoric painters used the natural bulges in the rock of the ceiling to give the bison volume and relief. They took their colours from the earth, ochres and charcoal, and put them on with their fingers or with rough brushes. Because our presence damages the originals, access is limited to experimental visits of five people a week; most visitors walk through the exact replica, the “Neocueva”.