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Underground pearl of the Lesser Carpathians - Driny Cave
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The Driny Cave is the only show cave in the western Slovakia and one of the main tourist attractions of the Lesser Carpathians.
It is located in the Smolenice Karst in the Lesser Carpathians Mountains,
south-westerly from Smolenice, in the Trnava district and near the recreation
resort Jahodník. As compared with other show caves in Slovakia, where usually
larger underground spaces prevail, it represents a system of narrow fissure
passages, however with beautiful dripstone decoration. The mysterious hole in
the earth was known for the local people already in the 19-th century, but only
in 1932 they dared to enter underground.
Proper electric lighting was installed in 1943. In 1950 the cavers headed by
J. Majko, A. Droppa and L. Blaho discovered the Hall of the Slovak Speleological
Society, which was together with the Loamy Passage and the Passage of Hopes
opened to public in 1959. The length of tourist path is 410 m.
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It is formed in brown-grey Lower Cretaceous chert limestones of the Vysocký
Nappe by corrosion of atmospheric waters penetrating along tectonic faults. The
cave reaches the length of 680 m and vertical span of 40 m. It consists of
narrow fissure passages, from one to three meters wide and not big hall spaces
(Slovak Speleological Society Hall), formed mostly on intersection of tectonic
faults.
A rich sinter fill decorates fissure underground spaces. Flowstone draperies
with indented facing are typical for this cave. Eleven bat species have been
found here by now.
Viac na www.ssj.sk
Author: SSJ
Photo: Ing. M Rengevič
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