{"id":29940,"date":"2023-08-30T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/grotta-su-marmuri\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:17:55","slug":"grotta-su-marmuri","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/grotta-su-marmuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotta Su Marmuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Su Marmuri cave<\/strong> is in the <strong>Municipality of Ulassai<\/strong>, in <strong>Ogliastra<\/strong>, in central-western <strong>Sardinia<\/strong>, in the province of <strong>Nuoro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The cave sits at <strong>880 m a.s.l.<\/strong> in the \u201c<strong>Taccu\u201d of Ulassai<\/strong>; it extends for about <strong>850 metres<\/strong> and can be visited. Its formation dates back around <strong>150 million years<\/strong> and is the result of erosion by water and <strong>karstic processes<\/strong>. The temperature inside the cave is constant at about <strong>10\u00b0C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the cave, the visit is conducted along a <strong>path<\/strong> crossing a series of <strong>very high rooms<\/strong>. Inside we can see <strong>basins<\/strong> and two <strong>small lakes<\/strong> filled by the incessant dripping water. On the vaults and sides of the path are various kinds of <strong>karstic forms<\/strong> such as <strong>stalactites<\/strong>, <strong>stalagmites<\/strong>, <strong>columns<\/strong>, <strong>pisolites<\/strong> and <em><strong>splash<\/strong><\/em>, globular shapes created by the dripping.<\/p>\n<p>The largest room is the \u201c<strong>Large Hall<\/strong>\u201d, spanning 72 metres in length and 20 wide. This is followed by the \u201c<strong>Organ Hall<\/strong>\u201d, whose concretions resemble organ pipes, the \u201c<strong>Cactus Hall<\/strong>\u201d, with two 20-metre-high stalagmites, resembling cacti and the \u201c<strong>Bat hall<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These important naturalistic <strong>flying<\/strong> <strong>mammals<\/strong>, form a huge <strong>bat colony<\/strong> (over 10,000 specimens) living in the cave, probably one of the <strong>largest colonies in Italy<\/strong>, made up of <strong>common bent-wing bats<\/strong>. Also found in the cave is the greater and lower <strong>horseshoe bat<\/strong>, the <strong>Mehely&#8217;s horseshoe bat<\/strong> and the <strong>Greater mouse-eared bat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Its name, <em><strong>Marmuri<\/strong><\/em>, in Sardinian means \u201c<strong>marble<\/strong>\u201d, referring to the unusual colours of the cave&#8217;s <strong>limestone rock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few kilometres away from the town, a visit to the site can be pre-booked at the Cave\u2019s service centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28107,"template":"","tipologia":[1039],"categoria":[1022],"tematica":[1031],"class_list":["post-29940","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 Su Marmuri - 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-su-marmuri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grotta Su Marmuri - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Su Marmuri cave is in the Municipality of Ulassai, in Ogliastra, in central-western Sardinia, in the province of Nuoro. 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