Fuente: elaboración propia.Información y fotos tomadas de la página web del centro de interpretación de Tito Bustillo.

1. Tito Bustillo Cave
Cantabrian cave paintings

3. The discovery
In April 1968, some members of the Torreblanca
mountain group visited Pozu’l Ramu (Ribadesella) and
discovered two of the most important ensembles.
A few days after the discovery, one of the
adventurers, Celestino Fernández Bustillo, died in a
mountain accident. The cave formerly known as Pozu´l
Ramu was renamed Tito Bustillo.

5. The massif
• The Massif of Ardines is a karst system that contains in its
interior a network of caves formed over thousands of years.
• The underground channel of the San Miguel River has stalactite
and stalagmite, columns and karst formations that make up a
singular landscape.
• The Cuevona is an immense geological dome.
• Tito Bustillo is an impressive geological and archaeological site.

7. The Magdalenian society
• The archaeological excavations have evidenced the intense
human occupation of this cave in the Magdalenian age.
• The Magdalenian were hunter and gatherers. They used tools
and everyday objects such as spears, harpoons or spatulas.
• The animal remains reveal that hunting, gathering and fishing
were basic activities.
• Traditional tools for making clothes, such as scrapers, punches
and bone needles were found.

8. World Heritage
• On July 2008, the Committee of UNESCO inscribed this site
in the list of World Heritage together with four Asturian
sites (Pindal, Peña de Candamo, Llonín and Covaciella) and
nine more sites in Cantabria and the Basque Country.
• The Tito Bustillo Cave Art Centre was created to research
about the life and the artistic production in Tito Bustillo in
connection with other Asturian sites.

10. Main panel
• The Main Panel is the only room open to the public and the most
important one because of the large number of representations and the
variety of artistic techniques and styles.
• 30 deer, 13 horses, 9 reindeers, 5 goats, 4 bisons, 2 unidentified animals
and 17 signs.

13. The crossroad ensemble
• The Crossroads is a large room of the cave that has a remarkable
ensemble: a grill-shaped sign and a violet horse identical to
those in the Main Panel.

14. Gallery of horses
• These are high quality Zoomorphic engravings. Some of the
representations have a great naturalism.
• Eight figures, six horses, a bovine figure and possibly a bear,
are clearly identified.

15. The Whale ensemble
• This ensemble contains
some zoomorphic engravings and
lines as a partial representation of
a marine animal identified as a
whale.
• Its marine nature is a rarity in the
Palaeolithic cave art.

16. The geometrical sings ensemble
It is a small panel with engraved quadrangular signs on
the wall of the Long Gallery.

17. Hand in negative
They are painted in negative and in red color. They can be seen at the
Long Gallery. To date, it is the only representation of its kind in
Asturias, probably dating from an early Palaeolithic human occupation
of the Tito Bustillo cave.

18. The gallery of anthropomorphic figures
It is a curious hanging
formation commonly
known as the flag.
Two anthropomorphic
figures are painted in
red on either side of
the flag.