Gadime stalactite cave
Gadime stalactite cave
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The stalactite cave Gadime |
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Location: | Gadime e Ulët, Lipjan , Kosovo | |
Geographic location: |
42 ° 28 '48.2 " N , 21 ° 12' 19.9" E | |
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Type: | Stalactite cave | |
Discovery: | 1966 | |
Show cave since: | 1976 | |
Lighting: | electric | |
Overall length: | 1260 m | |
Length of the show cave area: |
500 m |
The cave Gadime ( Albanian Shpella e Gadimës or Shpella e Mermerit , Serbian Мермерна пећина Mermerna pećina ) is a stalactite cave of limestone in the village Gadime e Ulet in the town of Lipljan in Kosovo .
The cave is 1,260 meters long. Of this, 500 meters are released for tourist viewing. Inside the cave there is a lake, also known locally as the Lake of Fortune , into which tourists throw change. This lake is about 15 meters deep and one to two meters wide. During the summer the temperature is constant at 13 ° C, but during the winter it drops to around 11 ° C.
The cave was discovered in 1966.
Web links
Commons : Gadime Cave - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ E bukur dhe mistike: Shpella e Gadimes, një nga pasuritë më të veçanta të Kosovës (photo) - Telegrafi . In: Telegrafi . January 7, 2016 ( telegrafi.com [accessed March 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Ahmet Tmava, Sabri Avdullahi, Afat Serjani, Islam Fejza: HUMAN IMPACTS IN A TOURIST KARSTIC GADIME CAVE (KOSOVA) . In: International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences . tape 2 , no. 2 , February 2013, ISSN 2305-8269 (English, eaas-journal.org [PDF; 171 kB ; accessed on April 5, 2019]).
- ^ Show Caves of Serbia. Jochen Duckeck, showcaves.com, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
- ↑ 501 Must-visit Natural Wonders ( English ). Bounty Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7537-1591-8 .
- ↑ Mermerna pećina ( Serbo-Croatian ) serbia-tourism.org. Archived from the original on December 23, 2003. Retrieved February 18, 2009.
- ^ Michael Schuman: Serbia and Montenegro Nations in Transition . Infobase Publishing, May 14, 2014, ISBN 9781438122526 , p. 137 (accessed February 27, 2016).
- ^ Gadime Cave (Gadime e Ulët), Kosovo . National Geographic : Western Balkans Geotourism Map Guide. Web archive from January 24, 2014.