Grotta del Bue Marino
| Grotta del Bue Marino
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 View from the entrance area outside |
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| Location: | Golfo di Orosei , Nuoro Province , Sardinia , Italy | |
| Height : | 0 m slm | |
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Geographic location: |
40 ° 14 '48.3 " N , 9 ° 37' 22.7" E | |
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| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Overall length: | 5000 m | |
| Length of the show cave area: |
900 m | |
The Grotta del Bue Marino is a cave system at the foot of the Supramonte in the Golfo di Orosei .
The monk seal ( Italian Bue Marino ), after whom the cave is named, still lived here in the 1980s . Today the animals, which are up to 3 meters long and weigh 350 kg, are no longer to be found there.
The cave consists of two parts:
The southern part is an active water cave, it consists of a large tunnel into which the sea water penetrates and which has numerous small freshwater lakes fed by underground rivers. There are numerous concretions here . About 900 meters of it can be visited, there are walkways and electric lighting. The light penetrating into the cave illuminates the numerous stalactites and stalagmites in a changing play of colors.
The northern part is no longer geologically active, but no less interesting. This branch, which was closed for a long time due to massive damage from tourism in the 1960s and 1970s, has been open for guided tours since 2012. The north grotto is not approached by boats and can only be reached on foot via a path from Cala Fuili.
Around 5 km of the stalactite caves have already been explored.
In the cave there are some rock carvings from the Neolithic , depictions of dancing people, the cave was probably used for rituals.
Directions
- The Grotta del Bue Marino (southern branch) can be reached by boat. Boat tours are offered from the resort of Cala Gonone .
- The Grotta del Bue Marino (north branch) is only accessible on foot. The road that leads south from Cala Gonone along the coast ends in a dead end just before the bay of Cala Fuili a few hundred meters before the grotto . After a short stairway that leads steeply down to the bathing bay, a small sign shows the way to the northern part of the grotto (approx. 40 minutes' walk). There is no footpath to the southern branch.
The caves from the sea
Web links
- Le Grotte del Bue Marino: il lato north. Sardegna Turismo, accessed August 18, 2017 .
- Grotta del Bue Marino: il Ramo Nord. Informati Sardegna, accessed on August 18, 2017 .
