26 Caves to Explore in Italy

The green caves of Pradis are located in the province of Pordenone, in the Carnic Prealps, a short distance from the town of Pradis di sotto - Gerchia . A small waterfall from the Cosa stream in the Pradis Caves complex The green caves of Pradis are formed by the set of a deep gorge carved into the limestone by the Cosa torrent and three connected caves The cave was made accessible to the public through works carried out in the years 1964-1968.

The Romito cave is a site dating back to the upper Paleolithic containing one of the oldest evidence of prehistoric art in Italy, and one of the most important in Europe, located in Nuppolara in the municipality of Papasidero, in Calabria, province of Cosenza. Outside there are some rock engravings, among which the most important is a graffiti on a large boulder depicting a majestic bovid, and burials, dating back to about 11,000 years ago.

The name of San Giovanni d'Antro identifies a cave and a church, built inside the cavity, located in the municipality of Pulfero, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The cave opens onto a vertical rocky wall of Mount Mladesiena at 348 meters above sea level, a few hundred meters from the hamlet of Antro. The initial part of the cave is partially occupied by the building works erected to build a small church dedicated to the Saints who gave it its name.

The source of Gorgazzo is an underwater cave where the homonymous torrent originates, a tributary of the Livenza river. The Valchiusana spring is located near Polcenigo. The name derives from the Friulian gorc which means precisely abyss. The cave consists of a resurgence, one of the deepest ever explored in the world and the second deepest karst spring with a siphon in Europe after the Spring of Valchiusa in Provence.

The Stiffe caves are a complex of karst caves located near Stiffe, in the territory of the municipality of San Demetrio ne 'Vestini ( AQ ), in Abruzzo, included within the Sirente-Velino regional natural park. Testimony of an active resurgence unique in Italy made accessible to the public since 1991, today they constitute one of the main naturalistic sites in the L'Aquila area, registering over 40,000 presences annually.

The Frasassi caves are underground karst caves located in the territory of the municipality of Genga, in the province of Ancona. The complex of caves falls within the Regional Natural Park of Gola della Rossa and Frasassi. The complex consists of a huge series of underground rooms of which the first, which can be easily visited by the public, is the Abisso Ancona, a huge cavity that has an extension of 180 x120 m and a height of 200 m; it is so large that the Duomo of Milan could easily be con