One of the most impressive caves in Greece is well hidden at the southern tip of the Peloponnese, minutes from Naples. The lush mountainous path to the cave below the eastern end of Parnonas Fading at Cape Malea.
Rich in variety of shapes and density, colors and forms, Cave ranks second of its kind in Europe. Three million years it took nature to create the incomparable stone decoration and to shape objects and constructs a fantasy of immense. Among theoratous red and white "waterfall", the giant columns polyschimes, the "curtains" and "sheets" that pour like wax dummies from the roof, nest "octopus" and "coral", "Elephants" and "mushrooms", "Birds" and caricatures, "Exotic plants" and monumental creatures.
The extent of the cave is 1.500 m, divided into two levels and the visitor enters a trail 500 m. Rare instances of such discs, flat stalagmites, eccentrics and eliktites, have a special place in the cave and are important stations of the tour. With a little luck, might encounter a noble resident of the cave, the blind and deaf dolichopodo.
The cave was formed in Jurassic limestones (145 until 195 million. year) unity 'Tripoli', after a period of geological disturbances the active period followed by a drop flow and creating chemical sediments. The lithomatikos decoration composed of calcium carbonate in crystalline form, enriched with metal oxides subsoil which give the eptachromi palette.
In the courtyard of the cave works canteen, while a short distance away is the very old church of St. Andrew, marked by the passages of cursors and conquerors.
Days and hours of operation:
By early July to the mid-September, The cave is open daily from 10:00 until 17:30
First tour 10:30- last tour 17:30.
Tours every hour.
Time tour 30-40 minutes.
Ticket Prices:
Adults: € 7,00
Adult members of organized groups: € 5,00
Children, Students, AMEA. & unemployed: € 3,00
Contact us:
For group visits (Associations, Schools etc.) or for more information please call at 27343 60100, 27340 23623 or mob. 6939485937
