Italy's third grotto

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The cave Bossea, often called the plural perhaps because of its many internal rooms and its huge size, is located in the mountains, close to Frabosa Soprana (CN).
E 'for the third cave size and importance in Italy and in this cave there are several permanent scientific stations in the study of minerals, etc. ... which data should be at the Polytechnic of Turin and other parts of Italy to be studied.
Bossea you come to and follow the signs to the cave to a large house where frankly the entrance is not even mentioned so well then. The house contains a small bar but well supplied, a small convenience store and souvenir items of the cave and not just some vetrinetta with local products of the valley as honey, jam or digestive-based plants and flowers ..... .
A large room that acts both as reception / restaurant for a few evenings learning about caves that are held by cavers and researchers.
With 10 euros per head is the entry ticket to the cave for the way most 'extended that lasts about 1.5 hours and is a guided tour. There are 2 entries in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, the last is at 16:30. There are discounts for children and groups, the guides who accompany tourists in the caves are the same as those involved in the bar and souvenir shop.
The visit is interesting and nothing short of amazing, before entering certainly not what I expected then I have seen, I was pleasantly impressed and it is a visit that is worth its price, both for the beauty that for ' natural and scientific interest.
The cave has an inside track to go without too much effort and enlightened, there are points where we must pay attention and within the bottom is slippery, very wet and cool, but really worth taking a little 'cold to see the inside of this great cave with a thousand wonders.
Inside the cave then 2 times a year, in a particular room and extended, are made 2 concerts, a December 26 and an August 16, I'd say nothing short of enchanting do a concert in a cave .... ..
It starts in a group along a path that climbs slightly up the mountain, you reach the entrance and through a narrow path you come right away to places drugs. The walkway is in fact almost all of concrete steps with handrails, which is used to hold and not slip. The guide during the tour at least 5 stops to give explanations both historic and nature of the place.
The cave is very ancient and it is great to be at levels of magnitude of surface height, comes to be really high with views very wide arc.
This' inside that you can 'see visions are truly unique and beautiful, the colors are almost fatati and the environment will be moist but not unhealthy because inside there is running water that makes all things move the air and prevents the formation of micro-organisms harmful to the delicate and beautiful rock formations that make up the limestone cave.
The cave has been carved by water and the water that flows there is a water much lime, it has facilitated the formation of stallattiti and stallagmiti very large and very visible.
It goes from wide spaces with views on ceilings and beautiful rock formations and limestone to lakes, waterfalls, pools of crystal clear water, high in rock holes where once the water went, and now no more 'new youth formations, large ancient formations.
The classic names that are given to the limestone formations are typical of the environment, babbo natale, Juliet's balcony, and so the missile 'path to the forms and number of conformations.
The colors are irresistibly relaxing and you go from white to gray, yellow, brown, orange, green, blue, dark brown and cream colored shades.
Inside is recommended to do photography without flash, for the preservation of micro, thanks to metal handrails can make beautiful pictures even without flash because you can 'to support the handrail, the conformations piu' belle are illuminated while ' environment in general has a weak yellowish light.
In the hall of wonders, the most 'big cave, where there is a scientific station stable and where concerts are held, there are the remains of animal bones found in the cave, preserved in caskets of glass in a display case then there is Reconstruction of a nearly full of the cave bear, authentic, with old bones found.
The configurations range from limestone pinnacles pointed, a sweet round shapes resembling large balls of ice cream in the process of dissolution ...... a very beautiful high waterfall and heavy, the water is crystalline and plunges into a river very scenic.
There are several points from which you can 'see the water slide challenge, a sign that the activity of the cave is still active.
The visits can be made every day and all year, now we are doing some studies to discover new cave is still unexplored.
After an hour and a half of ups and breathtaking visuals is a bit tired but in a small bar you can 'find restaurants with good cakes and coffee, hot chocolate, or if you find them at lunch, a typical dish prepared or of place!
The cave is about 22/25 km from Mondovì to Liguria, the valley where the valley is a limestone that also visit other small caves and viewpoints.
It is advisable to call for a visit to the cave Bossea, especially if you come from far away because the groups can not exceed a maximum number of visitors, if you are already 'groups who have booked are likely to stay out and it really would be a great sin.
The staff is also very kind and available, is a beautiful place to spend an afternoon in contact with primeval nature.