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Spain is made up of a pot-pourri of cultures belonging to civilisations which, down the centuries, gradually came to settle on Iberian soil and make it their home. This historical legacy draws its strenght from the very variety of this mosaic, the wealth of nuance and the ultimate fusion of the respective contributions. Added to this is the fact that all the major currents in culture and art have found their echo in a native creative talent of true relevance.

Origins. The Altamira Cave (Cantabria), with its wall paintings dating from some 15,000 years ago, is only the most outstanding among a whole series of archaeological sites and caverns. Bronze Age stone towers (talaiots), altars (taulas) and mausoleums (navetas) in a good state of preservation are to be seen in Menorca, while the earliest examples of Iberian art dating frome the Iron Age, such as the weathered animal figures in the foothills of the Gredos, known as the Toros de Guisando and the stately head of the Dama de Elche, are to be found in other points in Castile and the so-called Levant region (Valencia/Alicante area).