Bossea Cave

The Bossea grotto (Italian: Grotta di Bossea) is the final sector of a large karst system located in the Ligures Alps that runs along the Maudagna-Corsaglia mountain range, between the Prato Nevoso basin and the Corsaglia river. It is located in the municipality of Frabosa Soprana in the province of Cuneo and the entrance to the cavity is at a height of 836 meters.

First explored in 1840, the cave is endowed with illumination and prepared for the visit, and presents a journey that extends over two kilometers, with a difference of 200 meters. The cave of Bossea (first cave of Italy to be opened to the public on August 2, 1874) is considered one of the most beautiful and important Italian tourist caves, for the variety of concretions, grandeur of the environment, and wealth water and underground lakes. Other suggestive aspects that characterize the tourist part of the cavity, creating scenographic effects of great aesthetic and environmental appeal, are the imposing dimensions, the dizzying heights, the extra-large walls, the stalactites. In the temple hall is exposed the complete skeleton of an Ursus Speleo that inhabited the caves of Cuneo until 15,000 years ago.

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