The Bossea Caves Nature Reserve is a nature reserve established by the Piedmont Region in 2011 and entrusted in management to the Marguareis Parks Authority. The protected area protects the homonymous Bossea Caves, a set of karst caves accessible to tourists considered among the most interesting in Italy both for the wealth of limestone concretions and for the numerous paleontological remains that have been found there.
The Bossea Caves are part of a karst system located between Prato Nevoso and the Corsaglia stream, in the municipality of Frabosa Soprana in the province of Cuneo; they are about 2 km long and have a vertical drop of 700 m. Inside they have different environments, such as streams and underground lakes, cyclopean boulders, stalagmite columns, stalactites and limestone concretions.
The first explorations of the cave date back to the first half of the 19th century; a few years later Domenico Mora reached the Ernestina lake, in 1874 an expedition passed the waterfall reaching the torrent canyon and in 1949 the exploration of the main branches was completed. Some speleological groups still continue to discover new ravines. The cave was opened to the public in 1874 and an internal lighting system was installed in the second half of the 20th century.
Inside the cave one finds the typical fauna of the karst environments; there are about fifty endemic species of the biotope, including Plectogona sanfilippoi, Eukoenenia strinatii and Troglohyphantes pedemontanus.
Bossa Caves
Address: Bossea, 10, 12082
Phone: 345 128 2581
Site:
https://www.grottadibossea.com/Location inserted by
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