{"id":29934,"date":"2023-08-29T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/grotta-di-santa-barbara\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:48:32","slug":"grotta-di-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/grotta-di-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotta di Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Santa Barbara Cave<\/strong> can be found in the town of <strong>Iglesias<\/strong>, near the mining <strong>village of San Giovanni<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the story of its discovery is linked to the <strong>mining activity<\/strong> in this part of <strong>Sardinia<\/strong>. In 1952, during excavation work for the construction of a new mining tunnel, after demolishing a wall of rock, the miners found themselves in front of an enormous room.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle offered by the cave&#8217;s <strong>untouched concretion<\/strong>, protected by the mountain, had remained unknown up until that point. The cave consists of a <strong>single large room<\/strong>, standing 25 metres tall. The room features various concretions such as: <strong>stalactite<\/strong>, and <strong>stalagmite<\/strong> <strong>columns<\/strong> covered by <strong>aragonite<\/strong> eccentrics. The cave also contains <strong>honeycomb concretion<\/strong> details on the walls and vault. There is also a <strong>small body of water<\/strong> in the lower part.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Santa Barbara cave<\/strong> is one of the oldest in the world, and <strong>the oldest in Italy<\/strong>. Indeed, from a geological point of view, the cave opens up between a layer of <strong>ceroid limestone<\/strong> and <strong>silicified yellow dolomite rock<\/strong>, formations dating back to the <strong>Lower Cambrian era<\/strong> (approx. 500 million years ago). Furthermore, it represents a <strong><em>unicum<\/em> in the whole of Europe<\/strong> for its <strong>dark brown barite tabulate crystals<\/strong> found on the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the cave is along a marked trail which retraces the <strong>old mining circuit<\/strong>. Indeed, lead and zinc were extracted from the site in the period from 1875 to 1998. A small <strong>electric train<\/strong> provides access to the cave that travels through the <strong>mining tunnel<\/strong>. After alighting the train, take a <strong>lift<\/strong> down the shaft for around 36 metres and then enter the cave down a <strong>spiral staircase<\/strong>. To this day, the cave still has no direct openings onto the outside, thus ensuring its preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26891,"template":"","tipologia":[1039],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-29934","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-cave","categoria-naturalistic-asset","tematica-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grotta di Santa Barbara - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/grotta-di-santa-barbara\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grotta di Santa Barbara - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Santa Barbara Cave can be found in the town of Iglesias, near the mining village of San Giovanni. 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