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Cave of Altamira

Cave of Altamira
Museo de Altamira y D. Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
43.3781°N, 4.1214°WOPEN YEAR-ROUND

The Cantabrian cave whose ochre bison paintings, roughly 14,000–20,000 years old, were among the first Paleolithic art ever recognized as genuine.

Prehistory (pre 3000 BC)Art & CultureUNESCO World Heritage