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Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
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Grotta Gigante also known as Riesengrotte or as Grotta di Brisciachi, is a giant cave on the Italian side of the Trieste Karst. Its central cavern is 107m high, 65m wide and 160m long putting it in the 1995 Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest tourist cave. The cave contains many large stalactites and stalagmites many of exceptional beauty. A feature of the stalagmites is their "dish-pile" appearance, formed by water dropping from up to 80 meters above and depositing calcium carbonate over a wide area. |
Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
Post Number: 118
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Useful Information:-
http://www.showcaves.com/english/it/showcaves/Giga nte.html |
Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
Post Number: 117
Registered: 01-2007
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Official Web Site of Grotta Gigante:-
http://www.grottagigante.it/html/setarchiviok.html |
Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
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Grotta Gigante Gallery:-
http://www.showcaves.com/english/it/showcaves/Giga nteGallery.html |
Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
Post Number: 115
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http://www.showcaves.com/images/Big/013-171.jpg |
Trieste
Pilla Bewarse
Username: Trieste
Post Number: 114
Registered: 01-2007
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Grotta Gigante:-
Before cultural forces gave Trieste its social form, of course, there were geographic elements that gave it its physical form. The Grotta Gigante, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest cave available to tourists, was inhabited during prehistoric times. With its massive domed vault, it could easily accommodate St. Peter's Basilica. Two white plastic tubes in the center of the grotto are part of a scientific experiment measuring the tides of the Earth. (It appears that it is not only the sea that rises and falls with the movement of the moon; that the Earth also expands and contracts with the lunar pull is being studied here.) |
