The visitors were no longer allowed to visit the original cave Santimamiñe since 2006, because it had been deteriorated along the time due to environmental factors and to structural damage due to human intervention.  

Virtualware team carried out various stages of a technically highly complex and long process.  Virtual Reality technology has enabled the cave to be recreated extremely accurately. Laser scanning technology was used to collect data and multimedia cards are fitted into, including all the geological, archaeological elements and cave paintings. The company Virtualware has developed this innovative application combined with a huge stereoscopic screen by means of which visitors feel as if they are actually inside the prehistoric cave. It is an impressive diffusion media that makes the cave and its natural environment known and it also becomes a tourist attraction. It has appealed more than 3.200 persons during the first month since the opening