A must see place, for Guests of Cueva Santa Maria and visitors to the area, is the Pre-historic museum in Orce. Housed in the Palace of the Segura. There are two floors, with artifacts shown in glass cases, along with audiovisual presentations, the museum staff are very knowledgeable and take visitors on a trip of the Highlands, (the Altiplano) of 1.5 million years ago, describing its climate, exotic flora, fauna and wildlife, of saber-toothed tigers, giant hyenas, hippos, rhinos and mammoths, the land in which our earliest European ancestors lived. Pretty much all of the artifacts in the museum are originals and have been found in archaeological sites of Orce. For the amount and quality of its collections, the museum is only matched by a few museums in Europe and North America.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 06:00:01 +0000