The best photo spots in the Basque Country
The best photo spots in the Basque Country
3,5 km - Ainhoa
Not to be missed
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They were shaped by drops of water with wisdom, modesty and perseverance. These thousand-year-old caves shelter a stream, the Urtxume, and a story. We invite you to discover it throughout a 40-minute “sound and light” tour, enhancing all the beauty and power of nature . According to legend, this is where the laminak lived, whose echo of voices still seems to resonate along the water that runs through the bowels of the site.
The Urdax caves were inhabited by our ancestors during different periods of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic. The famous French speleologist Norbert Casteret discovered in 1930 “a magnificent shelter under the rocks”, Berroberría, and “a cave with engravings”, Alkerdi. The Alkerdi cave houses, at the end of a corridor, engravings made on a stalagmite. They represent a bison and a deer and probably also a horse , and they date back to the Upper Magdalenian, around 13,000 years ago. However, it is currently impossible to view these drawings, for conservation reasons.PRICES
- €7 from 14 years old
- Free from 0 to 4 years old
- €4 from 4 to 14 years old
The duration of the guided tour is 40 minutes and reservation is required.
Bar in July and August at your disposal.
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