Long underground network of karst caves with incredible limestone formations and guided tours of tunnels, corridors and lakes
At the gates of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, the Castelcivita Caves constitute, with a total
of about 4800 m in length, one of the largest speleological complexes in southern Italy. The system of
underground cavities opens at 94 m above sea level, between the banks of the Calore river and the south-western slope of the
Alburni mountains.
These are extens read more
Long underground network of karst caves with incredible limestone formations and guided tours of tunnels, corridors and lakes
At the gates of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, the Castelcivita Caves constitute, with a total
of about 4800 m in length, one of the largest speleological complexes in southern Italy. The system of
underground cavities opens at 94 m above sea level, between the banks of the Calore river and the south-western slope of the
Alburni mountains.
These are extensive karst cavities adorned with limestone concretions typical of the karst environment, such as
stalactites and stalagmites. The system is still active and extends along a single main branch from which, in several
points, short secondary branches branch off. The underground system is divided into three routes.
This subdivision allows you to move from a tourist route to an off-trail route that,
through spectacular concretioned environments, adorned with imposing and eccentric limestone formations,
leads to a large water basin called “Lago Sifone” and then gives way to the third route dedicated
only to speleologists where the cave ends with another lake called “Lago Terminale”.
After numerous speleological explorations, documented since the end of the nineteenth century, in 1972 the
Castelcivita Caves acquired considerable paleontological importance thanks to the location of
interesting archaeological deposits at the entrance to the cavity. read less
