The excursion starts with a short visit in the small medieval village of Titignano (Umbria) with wonderul panorama on Corbara Lake.
The activity continues driving in the countryside of Orvieto with suggestive views on Tevere Valley and hills around Todi. Arrived at the cave, you will have all equipment for the speleology (safe harness, safe helmet with light) and, after a briefing about features of the cave and modalities to go inside, you will proceed for few meters in a wood to arrive finally at the entrace of the big cave.
Through a natural slide, you will enter in the cave and you will stay inside since 3 hours minimum (short path) until 6 hours maximum (long path).
You will trek between galleries and tunnels, overcoming small climbing where you will use a rupe. At the end of the activity you will return in Titignano.
Technical features
Duration:
Half day or Full day
Min. partecipants:
6
Minimum age:
16 y.o.
Required equipment:
Comfortable sportswear, sweatshirt, hiking boots, dry clothes for the end of the activity. Snaks and water. Camera.
Provided equipment:
Safe helmet and harness.
Requirements:
Good physical condition and good motr skills.
notes:
The cave opens with 5 accesses on the right bank of the Forèllo Gorge, 150 meters above the present course of the River Tiber. Explored in the 1960s, this complex natural cavity, of tectonic origin, develops at the top of an extensive travertine bench over a distance of over 2500 meters and a maximum depth of 25 meters; In its interior a wide and labyrinthic lattice of tunnels and galleries is always richly trained with formations of the most varied, bizarre and spectacular and interesting deposits of evaporitic rocks. Its easy access to the cave, its enchanting beauty and natural shelter that it offered in a wild, very scenic landscape and naturally fortified by the high rocky buttresses that leak to the River Tiber, have favored a large attendance of the entire area From the earliest antiquity. Many prehistoric sites in the area have been found, such as the "Titignano" slides, particularly in the cavity where stratigraphic studies have established that the prehistoric man thrusted far from the natural entrances of the anthrax, From the late Neolithic, as evidenced by the remarkable abundance and relevance of the prehistoric finds made on the site, which embrace a large period of time between the ancient Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
