REPLICA OF THE ALTAMIRA CAVE

The cave itself consists of a 270-metre gallery flanked by a few smaller rooms and ancillary galleries. Its complete identical reproduction will allow you, if you cannot see the originals, to understand exactly how our ancestors lived.

The first area is the mouth of the cave. It corresponds to the place where the occupants of Altamira lived. Many archaeological remains have been found here: bones, tools, remains of fireplaces... The next large room, where the light had already gone out, is where the famous polychrome buffaloes are found. There are more than twenty of them in total, all in different positions and exploiting the relief of the ceiling, hollows and cavities, to give them shape, volume or an impression of movement. Some of the drawings are supplemented by engravings, which also create shadows skillfully designed to give the buffalo the desired appearance.

The rest of the cave also contains many paintings, but less notable than those in the buffalo room. As you go through the gallery, you come to the corridor of the tectiforms, a series of signs studied by Abbé Breuil and whose shape evokes a roof. The gallery ends with the deer gallery, where a large number of these animals are represented on the walls.