As we have said in a previous article, the natural arch of Mount Forato, exposed to sunlight all day long and visible from tens of kilometres distance away, seems to want to show off its impressive beauty. This time instead we will talk about another natural arch, the Ercole Bridge, also called the Devil’s Bridge,…
The ridge which separates Versilia from Garfagnana, in the part which connects Mount Croce (m. 1314) with the Pania della Croce (m. 1858), is made up of a particular type of limestone rock where impressive cavities can often form, called “tecchie”, characterized by a wide entrance which can be seen from afar, which go into…
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,…
On first sight they look like boxworks but they are not. While boxworks are very thin layers of calcite sticking out that have resisted to the corrosion of the dolomitic limestone which surrounded it, these protruding veins, clearly visible in the part of the tunnel which separates the natural entrance of the cave from the…
