Ayuntamiento de Aracena

Recommendations and standards visit
- Duration: 45 minutes a visit. 1200 m length of the trail
- Relative humidity of 90-98%
- Do not touch the formations.
- Not allowed to use cameras or videos.
- Environmental conditions and characteristics of travel may affect people who suffer from claustrophobia, respiratory failure or other cardiovascular disease or similar disabilities and problems walking. 



Topics of interest
- Location / Access
- Prices 2009
- Photo Album of the Cave of Wonders
- Suite for Piano "Cave of Wonders"
- Publications
- Folleto informativo Gruta
- The conservation of grotto awarded in
   I Congress of the Spanish tourist caves


Cavity 
  In the Cave of Wonders, disolutiva action of water, and his subsequent work as a silversmith training touching magic, have created a landscape full of suggestions and underground mysteries. Formations stalactites, stalagmites, columns, gours, coladas, pisolitos, eccentric, curtains ... a world that the persistence of water, stone and time have gone up to the human imagination, to feel the exact dimension of nature .

  Scattered along a circular route, with galleries that overlap in 3 levels of different heights, surrounded by the silence of the lake water is able to propose, by the magic that soniquete persistent dripping from above as a mark compás of geologic time on earth, are the surprises to its visitors.


History
Tradition tells people that his discovery was a pastor, although the first historical reference to its existence dates back to 1886. In 1914 he was open to the public, being the first tourist cave in Spain. Since opening to tourism has been visited by thousands of visitors, including members of royalty, heads of state, government, politics, and has been a source of inspiration for all kinds of artists: poets, writers, filmmakers, painters and musicians.
The photo on the right we see SS.MM. visit Kings of Spain D. Alfonso XIII and Ms. Victoria Eugenia to the Cave of Wonders.


Geological
  It is caused by a cavity surface-disolutiva erosive action of water on the rocks, marbles, Cerro del Castillo. It has a horizontal development in which we can distinguish three levels of galleries superimposed. The abundance and variety of speleothems or limestone formations, stalactites, stalagmites, columns, gours, coladas, pisolitos, eccentric, curtains, sidewalks calcite, etc.., Make it a particularly attractive from a tourist point of view. The temperature is constant throughout the year and ranges between 16 and 19 degrees centigrade. The relative humidity of the air varies between 98 and nearly 100%. 
  



Visit
  The Grotto of the "Wonders", a length of 2130 meters, offers a tour of 1200 m. The vast extent of the flooded areas (water table level and the first gours), abundance and variety of speleothems and the length of its development make this a joint cavity and beautiful views.
The visit of the Hall of Shells, from which takes the first level of galleries (Brillantes, forming the spine, ...) which is characterized by the presence of water up to the Grand Chamber. From this room, the largest of the cavity, it is the Board of the Cathedral. In this 2nd level (the bath Sultana, Emerald Room and the Glass of God), there are a large number and variety of formations, as well as flooded gours. It was down to the first level to cover the Boards of Chickpeas, the Naked and again, the lake that forms the water table of the cavity, which will accompany us until the end.





Links of Interest
We were with them (event sponsored by the Cave of Wonders)
A.C.T.E. (Association Tur'sticas Cuevas Españolas) http:// www.cuevasturisticas.com
Publication of the book Cave