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.
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.
Evocación Santillana is the act of returning to a place you have only visited once, or perhaps never. It is a nostalgic longing for a simpler, stonier, greener time.