With its ceiling full of impressive prehistoric paintings, Altamira Cave has been compared to the Sistine Chapel. Though access to the the cave, located in the Cantabria region of northern Spain, is extremely limited, a replica of is tucked away in a museum in the Spanish capital.
You can find reproductions of the cave and its artwork in several places. Best-known is the neocueva (neo-cave), which can be found at the National Museum and Research Center of Altamira. Another is located the garden of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, where visitors can admire a selection of the animals that were painted in Altamira cave between 35,000 and 13,000 years ago.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Love Art? Welcome to Madrid! en | 1.1km | site_izi | |||
| Hermitage of Saint Pelagius and Saint Isidore | 2020 | 0.7km | site_ao | ||
| Relics of St. Valentine at Iglesia de San Antón | 2019 | 0.9km | site_ao | ||
| Caja de las Letras | 2019 | 0.7km | site_ao | ||
| Convent of the Holy Spirit Crypts | 2019 | 1km | site_ao | ||
| Madrid’s Last Horchata Kiosk | 2019 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| Costitx Bulls | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| The Lady of Cerro de los Santos | 2019 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| San Antonio de los Alemanes | 2018 | 1.3km | site_ao | ||
| Dolmen de Dalí | 2018 | 1.3km | site_ao | ||
| The Lady of Elche | 2018 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| Spain’s Good Luck Frog | 2018 | 0.3km | site_ao | ||
| ‘Witches’ Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)’ | 2018 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| Guanche Mummy of Madrid | 2017 | 0.1km | site_ao | ||
| The House of Beasts | 2018 | 1.1km | site_ao | ||
| Torre de Valencia | 1968 | 0.8km | site_brutalism | ||
| Apartment Building Calle Monte Esquinza 41 | 0.9km | site_brutalism | |||
| Edificio Pirámide | 0.9km | site_brutalism |
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