Ojo Guareña
Beneath the moors of Burgos, one of Europe's largest cave labyrinths hides Magdalenian black paintings and the bare footprints of explorers who walked in some 4,500 years ago.
Under the moors of northern Burgos, more than 110 kilometres of galleries make Ojo Guareña one of Europe's largest cave systems — and a sanctuary used for over 11,000 years. In 1968 speleologists from the Edelweiss group found the Sala de las Pinturas, its walls covered with black anthropomorphs, animals and dozens of triangles now dated to around 13,000 years ago. Deeper in, the Galerías de las Huellas preserve the bare footprints of about ten people who explored the cave some 4,500 years ago. At the entrance, the rock-cut hermitage of San Bernabé still holds mass each summer.
Gallery
Notable Features
- ◦ Black-painted anthropomorphs and triangles dated to ~13,000 years ago
- ◦ Hundreds of prehistoric bare footprints along a 400 m route
- ◦ Rock-cut hermitage of San Bernabé with painted vaults