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Acquaintance with the culture and nature of Italy usually begins in Rome. Then you can go anywhere - there are enough sights everywhere. If you head northeast to admire the tiny republic of San Marino, which flaunts like a graceful mole on the bronzed cheekbones of powerful Italy, turn up the road to the tiny town of Genga. It is located in the province of Ancona.

Frasassi caves

The road will go through low mountains - the Umbrian Apennines. Italy, by its configuration on the map, is often compared to a boot. At the same time, the Apennines can be likened to its zipper. They run in several segments almost in the middle of this boot from south to north. The mountains are old, low, their flat tops do not even reach two kilometers in height. Although the road sometimes winds in a serpentine, but it is not very scary. Deep chasms are rare here.

Approaching Genga, you see the yellow-green cutting of Italian fields and the hills bluish from the haze. Beautiful. but such places in Italy are countless. Their unique "trick" is hidden under your feet, in the Frasassi Gorge. There are many cave entrances on its slopes. They have been known to the locals since ancient times. The small chapel of Santa Maria del Frasassi was built in one of them in the 1971th century. However, it is unlikely that this fact would have raised the local caves to the rank of a pan-European attraction, if not for the discovery of 13. Then a group of speleologists from Ancona discovered that the Frasassi caves are much more extensive than expected. The researchers unexpectedly discovered a new system of caves, underground galleries and passages. It stretched for almost XNUMX kilometers! Some of its halls turned out to be so voluminous that a building like a church could easily fit in them.

Speleologists called the largest cave La Grotta Grande del Viento - "The Great Cave of the Wind". It really constantly feels a light stream of air. The waters of local rivers and streams began to wash out the lime from the slopes of the gorge about 200 million years ago. It is not surprising that during this time a fantastic underground world full of extraordinary beauties arose in the Frasassi Karst. There is a so-called Hall of Candles. Thousands of cream-colored stalactites hang from its ceiling, really resembling thick church candles. The rising stalagmites look like fangs of a dragon. In some places, the stalactites almost merge, starting to resemble the pipes of an outlandish organ. Their color varies from snow white to pale pink and bluish green.

In the Hall of Infinity, stalactites and stalagmites merged together to form columns. The most famous is called the Sword of Damocles. Its height is 7,4 meters in height, and its diameter is one and a half meters. These figures are especially impressive if you remember that over a hundred years, the length of stapactite increases by only one centimeter. On the walls of the caves, bizarre streaks appeared, reminiscent of the stucco molding of medieval Gothic cathedrals. The caves have their own "Castle of Witches" and their own "Niagara Falls". Some halls were chosen by bats. There are so many of them here that the ceiling overhead literally moves from the constant movement of their wings.

In the Frasassi caves, you can see small underground lakes with clear water and stone openwork lace, so thin that the rays of lanterns shine through it. Some underground formations look like outlandish hedgehogs. Others resemble plant roots.

In general, there is something to see. The caves are open to the public. Just don't deviate from proven routes. Experts say that so far only a small part of the underground world, which is hidden by the green fields of Ancona, has been explored.

Author: Afonkin S.Yu.

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