Even if you only visit the excellent Neocave (replica) to preserve the original, the emotion is raw. You look at those hands, those ochre lines, and you feel a direct line of communication with the past.
The "Colegiata de Santa Juliana" gives the town its name. This Romanesque masterpiece is the soul of the place. To evoke Santillana is to stand in its cloister, running your fingers over the weathered capitals that tell biblical stories in silent stone. The shadows are long here. The past feels present. evocacion santillana
To evoke Santillana is to think about the bison painted on the ceiling 36,000 years ago. It is the humbling realization that long before the Romanesque towers and the medieval inns, humans looked at the same landscape and felt the same urgent need to create beauty. Even if you only visit the excellent Neocave