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Jun112018

Fiat 124 sport spider meeting at the Grotta del Vento

Events, NewsBy Grotta del Vento11 June 2018Leave a comment

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…

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Jan132018

Double sunset at the Grotta del Vento

Grotta del Vento recommendsBy Grotta del Vento13 January 2018Leave a comment

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…

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Jan92018

A glimpse of Summer at the Grotta del Vento

Grotta del Vento recommends, NewsBy Grotta del Vento9 January 2018Leave a comment

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…

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Nov202017

The first descent in the Acheronte

Articles, Memoirs of an old caverBy Grotta del Vento20 November 2017Leave a comment

. 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…

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Nov32017

Fornovolasco

Articles, Excursions near the caveBy Grotta del Vento3 November 2017Leave a comment

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…

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Oct302017

Helictites

Curiosity about The Grotta del VentoBy Grotta del Vento30 October 2017Leave a comment

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,…

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