Spiritual Trips The Altamira Cave

  • 2016
Table of contents hide 1 Artistic demonstration is only possible if there is reasoning. 2 Location of the Cave of Altamira. 3 How to get to Altamira Cave? 3.1 Description of the Altamira Cave. Spiritual trips 4 The cave of Altamira, a prehistoric legacy for humanity.

The cave of Altamira in spiritual journeys is one of the few places in the world where you can enter the tunnel of time and travel to the past, if even if it seems a lie when entering the cave you are embarking on a trip to the Paleol period Superior Ethic, in prehistory about 35, 000 years ago . In this cave is one of the most valuable treasures of humanity. In the Altamira cave there are numerous paintings of different sizes and colors endowed with great technical and realism that show that cavemen had artistic sensibility and given their realism, proves that they were able to observe and analyze and then reproduce part of their environment. This discovery was made by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1879, although 11 years before the cave was discovered by a hunter named Modesto Cubillas, but they did not enter the cavern, this man makes the comment of his discovery to Marcelino and is when the curious adventurer discovers the matchless treasure.

The artistic demonstration is only possible if you have reasoning.

Spiritual Trips The Altamira Cave

Location of the Cave of Altamira.

The Altamira cave is located within the territory or municipality of Santillana del Mar in the Province of Cantabria, Region of the Western Coast of Cantabria. Coordinates: 43.37696 - 4.11972.

How to get to Altamira Cave?

The Altamira cave is an ideal place for spiritual trips, it is located just 2 km from the urban center of Santillana del Mar. There is a bus service all day.

Santander Airport is 25 km from the Altamira Museum.

RENFE. Torrelavega station. 6 km from the Altamira museum.

FEVE San Miguel Bridge Station. 4 km from the Altamira museum.

Description of the Cave of Altamira. Spiritual trips

The Altamira Cave is a natural gap or concavity of about 270 m, it is composed of a gallery with few derivations . This is divided into several sections, the first being the lobby: a spacious place where remains were found that confirm that it was inhabited, this section enters sunlight. The great room: in this vault are the polychrome paintings the rocks where bison, horses and servants are represented on the roof. A painting stands out representing a bison shrunk with a realism by the effects of the relief of the rocks, which are used by the author to give it a realism effect that today we would call 3D.

The colors used demonstrate the knowledge of the polychromy and keep a metric that shows that the painter knows about animal physiognomy, in the servant's figure it shows refined strokes, it shows a chromatic technique that varies according to the humidity, goes from a light ocher to reach the red, the servant's figure also stands out for its 2.25m size. The ocher horse is a figure that is repeated in other caves in the region which denotes that it was a common animal in the northern part of Spain. The colorful ceiling with its decoration has earned it the name of the Sistine chapel of rock art. In these works are mixed paintings with engravings and carvings and figures with the black outline appear . It is an ideal place for spiritual trips

The Altamira cave, a prehistoric legacy for humanity.

The conditions of humidity, temperature and amount of light have allowed these pictorial treasures to be preserved for so many thousands of years . According to specialists, the entrance was condemned by landslides being buried and maintaining a microclimate that favored conservation.

Currently a museum was built next to the cave of Altamira that is an exact reproduction of the true restricting the passage of only a few visitors for the protection of treasures.

In this museum, not only cave paintings were reproduced, but the cave and the pictorial technique were copied as faithfully as possible.

It is one of the recommended sites for people who make spiritual trips.

AUTHOR: Antonio, editor of the great family of hermandadblanca.org

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