City: Cantabria
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10 Caverns & Caves in Cantabria That You Shouldn't Miss
Cantabria (/kænˈtæbriə/, /-ˈteɪ-/; Spanish: [kanˈtaβɾja]) is a historic Spanish community and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community (province of Biscay), on the south by Castile and León (provinces of León, Palencia and Burgos), on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay).
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1. Cuevas Hornos De La Pena
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5.0 based on 40 reviews
A well known cave in Cantabria, now open to visitors in groups of 4. Cave paintings and etchings, stalagmites and stalagtites and more. Beautiful intimate cave in a beautiful valley.
2. Cueva Covalanas
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5.0 based on 249 reviews
3. Cave of El Castillo
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4.5 based on 690 reviews
The Cave of El Castillo contains a very well preserved cave art ensemble and an archaeological deposit with a stratigraphic sequence dating back from the Lower Paleolithic Era (about 150,000 years ago) to the Bronze Age (about 6,000 years ago).
Reviewed By BosleyCloud
Visited the cave complex that includes El Castillo on a Thursday in mid June @ around 11.00am and stayed for about 3 hours - not many other tourists visiting @ this time. The staff were very helpful, especially the young guy who was assigned to my group of 3 visitors to El Castillo - 2 Spanish visitors and myself British. He gave detailed explanations in Spanish, followed by English for my benefit, which was very helpful as you need explanations to fully appreciate the significance of what you are seeing in this superb cave. I was so impressed with this tour that I purchased a ticket to see Las Monedas as well - even though I was the only person wanting to see this second cave @ this time, the ticket staff were very helpful - fitted me in with a tour for 1 person and the same guide gave another equally detailed tour in English of this second amazing cave. I realise that I was very fortunate to have visited these caves on a quiet day, and to have been given a guide whose English was good enough for non-Spanish speakers to understand what they were encountering. I have visited other caves for study purposes and consider the tours I had @ this cave complex to be some of the best I have encountered
4. Cueva El Soplao
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4.5 based on 2,082 reviews
Reviewed By ricardova - San Juan, Caribbean
Very huge caves discovered by accident by miners excavating it. You most reserve your tickets previous to visit it because they have many visitors and the visit take one hour. Our was scheduled from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. You start climbing into a mine train to take you to the actual cave through a tunnel just a two minutes ride, then the view is spectacular and the guide explain everything clearly. The formations are incredible that we have not seen before even visiting several caves before. Of course they do not allow to touch nor to take pictures. There is also a cafeteria, rest rooms and a souvenir store where you can by souvenirs.
5. Parque Paleolitico de la Cueva del Valle
6. Cueva De El Castillo
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4.5 based on 24 reviews
Reviewed By zinc2014 - New York City, United States
We visited this cave and the one nearby back to back with an hour in between. We had one other couple on the tour with us. The tour guide was very sweet and accommodating to our English only crew. Both caves are not super-necessary to visit, but if we were to choose one, it would be this one due to the diversity of the drawings.
