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The Ispinigoli Cave
The blood-curdling scream of the young girls cast into the abyss to appease the gods still lingers within the walls of the cave.
And if, between the being and becoming of the Sardinian people, the pages of history were to be lost, these stalactites would narrate this tragic event forever. C.S.
A complex karstic system, which opens with a 50 metre deep abyss which is almost 15 km. long, develops inside mount s’Ospile, just few kilometres from the sea.
This part, which is open to visitors, features an imposing stalactite-stalagmite column which, at 38 metres, connects the vault with the floor of the cave and is one of the tallest in the world.
In the seventies, the Tourist Board or Dorgali provided it with a lighting system and with staircases suitable to enable the tour of the multifariously shaped and coloured concretions.
This cave has been defined fossil by many, as its activity appears definitely ceased but, in reality, even after just a shower of rain, water finds a way to penetrate along the tiny cracks and flow through the concretions.
The itinerary takes around forty-five minutes starting from a viewpoint where you can admire the depth of the abyss and, following a long staircase, ends at the entrance or the Abisso delle Vergini (theVirgins’ Abyss), a vertical cavity, about 60m. deep which is only accessible by speleologists.
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