The Is Zuddas Cave, located in the Santadi area, is a cavern created by constant water erosion, deriving from an underground water table.
The tourist itinerary covers a total of around 500 metres, split into various rooms. The most characteristic rooms are the Eccentrics room, the Theatre room and the Organ room.
In particular, the “Eccentrics” are karstic formations of aragonites, typically representative of Is Zuddas. They appear as a twist of “crazy threads“, heading in every direction in complete disarray as though conquering the force of gravity.
The Organ room takes its name from the presence of a karstic column which looks a bit like the well-known pipe musical instrument.
Another important feature of the cavern is “the cave’s flowers“. These are unusual and characteristic aragonite karstic formations. The minerals form genuine crystal tufts, similar to needles which, as they expanded, created white arboreal shapes.
In realty, the cave is part of a lattice complex of underground karstic caverns which extend for a total of 1650 metres through the rocks of Monte Meana. This hill stands at around 240 m a.s.l. and consists of Cambrian limestone rock. It has unveiled numerous surprises to speleologists who have been studying the cave since the 1960s.
Furthermore, fossil traces of the Sardinian pika, a rodent which existed only in Sardinia and Corsica and which fell into extinction around four centuries ago, have survived at the entrance to the cavern.
A manger scene is set up every Christmas inside the cave, complete with trachyte sculptures by the artist, Giovanni Salidu.
