A few decades ago, when the Island of Elba still hadn’t reached its current touristic development, Its east coast, from Cavo to Punta Calamita, had the highest concentration of mines present on Italian territory. The hills situated behind Rio Marina were devastated by the construction sites of one huge extraction area from which wonderful examples…
RALLY OF FIAT 124 SPORT SPIDER AT THE GROTTA DEL VENTO At the Grotta del Vento the vintage cars rallies continue at a rapid pace. After that of the Lancia Aprilia two Sundays past, on the 10th June it was the turn of the FIAT 124 sport spider. They are two completely different models: the…
On Friday 12th at 15,40 hours and Saturday 13th at 15,45 hours the unique astronomical vision of the double sunset behind Monte Forato could be seen again just a few hundred metres from the Grotta del Vento. The solar disc went down to be partially covered by the natural arch, and then reappeared almost entirely…
After four snowfalls in Autumn, accompanied by very rigid temperatures (up to -5°C.) and after the rain which has characterized the Christmas holidays, at the Grotta del Vento the epiphany has brought a glimpse of Summer, or at least a warm Spring. The air current, which normally in Winter gets sucked from the touristic entrance…
. When in 1964 I went down to the Acheronte area for the first time, today a focal point of the 2nd itinerary, I knew that only the speleologists from Bologna had preceded me, they had explored a good part of the cave three years before in 1961. What I found out the following year…
Before the road was built which today arrives at the Grotta del Vento those who wanted to visit it had to come on foot to the village of Fornovolasco, a picturesque little burgh situated in the point where three narrow ravines empty their waters into the only torrent called Turrite. It was not a random…
Stalactites usually always grow vertically; any eventual deviation of the growth axis can depend on dominating air currents which move the drop towards the direction of the wind, but that is uncommon, also because the direction of the air currents very often changes with the varying of the seasons. Given the extreme slowness of growth,…
UN PAESAGGIIO QUASI LUNARE: L’ALTOPIANO DELLA VETRICIA .
A MOONSCAPE-LIKE LANDSCAPE: THE VETRICIA PLATEAU
It is known how slow the growth of formations is in caves. However it often happens, inside concrete tunnels, or in the dungeons of castles or even under the reinforced concrete beams that are exposed to weather conditions, to see formations of considerable size, despite the fact that the places from where they have originated…
I cristalli, che in queste foto appaiono grigiastri, fino a 52 anni fa erano bianchissimi. Il cambiamento del colore è stato provocato da una violenta piena verificatasi nell’agosto del 1965 che immise nel laghetto le acque limacciose dell’Acheronte…
