🎨 Santimamiñe Cave
Magdalenian cave art site in Spain's Basque Country
📋 Fast Facts
- Location: Kortezubi, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
- Discovered: 1916
- Art period: Magdalenian, approximately 14,500–12,000 years ago
- UNESCO designation: Part of "Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain" (inscribed 2008)
Santimamiñe Cave is located in Kortezubi in Spain's Basque Country and forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing 18 caves with Paleolithic art. Discovered in 1916, the cave preserves wall paintings and engravings from the Magdalenian period of the Upper Paleolithic. The site is notable for its collection of animal representations and demonstrates the artistic traditions of hunter-gatherer societies in northern Iberia ...