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Bat Cave Moeciu

Bat Cave Moeciu

Bran Moeciu, RomaniaBat Cave is situated in the village located at 5km from the village Cave Moeciu Church on the eastern slope of the hill in the north-west shelf Bran and at an altitude of 950 m.

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Ice Cave - Piatra Mare

Ice Cave - Piatra Mare

Valea Prahovei, RomaniaIn Piatra Mare, in height Gatul Chivei, on a steep tens of meters, is the Ice Cave.

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Cave Limanu

Cave Limanu

Romanian Seaside, RomaniaLimanu cave is located in the southern part of Romania, the village area Limanu Limanu not far from the village.

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Ghetarul de la Scarisoara Cave

Ghetarul De La Scarisoara Cave

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaScărişoara Glacier Cave is a tourist attraction of national interest, the largest ice cave in the country.

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Women's Cave - Baia de Fier

Women's Cave - Baia De Fier

Parang, RomaniaCave woman (or Woman's Cave) is located in the municipality of Baia de Fier, Gorj County, Oltenia Gaetic Depression territory. The cave was carved in Mesozoic limestones from the southern edge of the Parang Mountains, the Yellow River. With a rich history, ancient cave sheltered during the war, when men went to fight, many children and women, hence its name. The first electrified cave in Romania.

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Bear Cave

Bear Cave

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaThe cave was discovered on September 17, 1975 accident, when after a dynamite in the Chişcău marble quarry, a gap formed by the first man entered the cave.

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Vartop Glacier Cave

Vartop Glacier Cave

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaThis cave is situated in Bihor Mountains, near the hamlet of Stone House, on the left bank of the Dry Valley Guard. The cave is 300 meters long, 15 m entrance and five feet tall, a descendant leads to several rooms.

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Bat Cave

Bat Cave

Banat, RomaniaBat Cave - is located near the town of Arad County Moneasa and decorated with stalagmites and stalactites of various sizes.

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Pestera cu Apa din Valea Lesului

Pestera Cu Apa Din Valea Lesului

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaSituated on the left side of the Valley of Hell, across from Local Council of Bulz (Bihor county), at a distance of about 2 km upstream from the confluence with Repede, Bulz Water Cave is developed in limestone on the edge of Lower Triassic and the environment.

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Dambovicioarei Cave

Dambovicioarei Cave

Bran Moeciu, RomaniaDambovicioarei Cave is located in a karst area Rucar Bran, one of the most developed country. It was formed in the limestone Massif, Damboviciarei river water due to the action, whose valley is located a few meters downstream.

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Cave Meresti - Harghita

Cave Meresti - Harghita

Transilvania, RomaniaThe cave Meresti is located in Varghis Quay, the south part of Harghita Mountains. The access to the area is made from Meresti city, where you can get to Hargita (Harghita county).

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Cave Meziad - Stana de Vale

Cave Meziad - Stana De Vale

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaMeziad Cave is situated in Bihor county Meziad Valley Mountains in South Eastern and Western Forest Mountains Apuseni Mountains.

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Cave Knolls

Cave Knolls

Romanian Seaside, RomaniaConsidered by scientists "a corner of Mars", Knolls cave was discovered accidentally in 1986 in an area called " The Knolls", in the north-western city of Mangalia.

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Cave Tismana Monastery  - Tismana

Cave Tismana Monastery - Tismana

Oltenia, RomaniaCave Tismana Monastery, also known as Treasure Cave because there was hidden the treasure of the Romanian National Bank during the second world war. Monastery is situated near Tismana (Gorj County) on the slope where is the cell of St. Nicodemus at 350 m altitude .

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Cave Glacier Live Fire

Cave Glacier Live Fire

Muntii Apuseni, Romania"Ghetarul Focul Viu" a block of ice hosting the third largest country fossil (after ice and pothole Scărişoara Borţig, also located in the Apuseni Natural Park), with a volume of approximately 25,000 m3.

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Pucioasa Hill Caves  - Balvanyos

Pucioasa Hill Caves - Balvanyos

Transilvania, RomaniaSo-called "caves" deep in volcanic blocks of the hill Pucioasa are, in most cases, the results of human labor, because the mines were sulfuric hollows. In the years 1848-1849, during the revolution, hence the necessary materials were extracted gunpowder manufacture.

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Wind Cave

Wind Cave

Crisana, RomaniaThe cave is located 50 kilometers from Oradea and 100 kilometers from Cluj-Napoca, access can be made either on the asphalted road DJ 764C, or on DN 1 (E60) or on the railway (CFR Șuncuiuș station). The natural entrance to the Cave of the Wind is located about two kilometers south-east of the town of uuncuiuș, in the left slope of the Crișului Repede valley, above the spring of Friana's Glade. Because the access gallery was very narrow and difficult to access, it was blocked and an artificial entrance opened a few tens of meters away.

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Cave Ponicova

Cave Ponicova

Clisura Dunarii, RomaniaCave Ponicova largest in the entire Danube Gorge (galleries totaling 1660 m) can be accessed by land or by boat on the Danube.

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Fortress of Ponor cave complex

Fortress Of Ponor Cave Complex

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaFortress of Ponor is without doubt the most grandiose of Romanian karst phenomenon, known and appreciated throughout the world.

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Measles Cave Policyholder

Measles Cave Policyholder

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaCave Measles policy is one of the most beautiful caves, being regarded as having the most diverse karst speleoteme in Romanian. It is a true natural museum, a relatively small length speleoteme alternately arranged full range of rigorous hands of a dogmatist as curator.

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Glacier in Zgurasti

Glacier In Zgurasti

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaThe cave is located in the village of Garda de Sus, Alba County, Bihor Mountains on the steep slope descending from the hill Mununa Ordancusii Valley, at an altitude of 921 m. It is reached either ascending slope Ordancusii Valley as a barely visible path that downstream of the cave begins Ionele Gate or down the hill Mununii, the red cross marking leading from the village of Upper Garda Scărişoara Cabana.

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Hoanca Water Cave

Hoanca Water Cave

Muntii Apuseni, RomaniaHoanca Water Cave is situated in Bihor Mountains, Basin Guard median valley dry. Access to the cave is in the village of Upper Valley Guard Aries.

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Buhui Cave

Buhui Cave

Banat, RomaniaThe cave is located in the Anina Mountains, on the left side of Buhui Valley, about 1.2 km southeast of Anina, the New Town district. The cavity has a pulmonary length of 6547 m, being located in the center of the Reșița-Moldova Nouă syncline, and may have one of the most important and complex hydrogeological square aliens, however it is possible and the longest lung is spread underground, 2100 m, from the Banat region.

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Bears Cave

Bears Cave

Crisana, RomaniaThe cave of the Bears of Chiscau, Bihor county, was accidentally discovered in 1975. Following the local mining operations, the opening to the underground void was realized by dynamiting the entrance. The miner Traian Curta was the first to descend into this cave, through the gallery to the Great Hall of the cave. The Bear Cave was discovered following works executed at a quarry located in the immediate vicinity of Chiscau village in Peietroasa commune, Bihor county in Romania. The name of Bear Cave comes from the many bear bones found in the cave. Following the researches, it was established that in the Bear Cave lived bears from the cave of the species Ursus spelaeus (cave bear). According to the same research, it was found that the oldest bones are 100,000 years old and the "last tenant" was "only" 17,000 years old. The cave bears had impressive dimensions compared to the current species of bears in Romania and even in the world. The cave bear was about 4 meters high in 2 paws and an impressive weight of 1000 Kg. At the time of the Bears Cave discovery, there were 5 complete skeletons of the species Ursus Spelaeus and the 6th complete skeleton was discovered in this cave. Unfortunately, the complete skeleton of the cave bear is in an area that is not visited, from the Scientific Reserve.

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Veterani Cave

Veterani Cave

Bucovina, RomaniaThe Veterans cave took its name from the cradle of Yanovich, the commander of the Austrian army stationed in Caransebeş, who re-fortified the cave at the end of the 17th century. The cave is dug in the left bank of the Danube, at the Cazanele Mari, in the Ciucaru Mare mountainous massif, 500 m downstream from the Cave from Gura Ponicovei, under the wall called the Câza Curii.

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Pestera de la Gehetarul de la Focul Viu

Pestera De La Gehetarul De La Focul Viu

Crisana, RomaniaThe cave from Gehetarul from Focul Viu is made up of 2 rooms that contain specific formations for stalagmite and stalactite caves as well as a glacier from which its name comes. The phenomena inside this cave favored the appearance of a glacier 25000 cubic meters. The cave has a natural window through which cold air enters and is maintained for a long time because there is no ventilation.

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