Grabovača Cave Park is also preparing a program for the International Night of Bats this year. In honor of these wonderful creatures that protect us from mosquitoes, you are invited on Saturday, 31.8.2024. from 18 hours to educational and creative workshops, and at 20 p.m. take advantage of the unique opportunity and visit Samograd cave after dark with a walk with a bat detector on the way to the cave.
Pećinski Park says that it is necessary to bring flashlights for easier movement in the dark. The temperature in the cave is 8°C, and closed-toe shoes or tennis shoes are mandatory.
International Bat Night traditionally since 1997, it has been celebrated on the last weekend in August with the aim of raising awareness of the need and importance of protecting bats due to the decline in their numbers in the world. Many of Europe's 45 bat species are endangered today, and some are even on the verge of extinction. All bat species that live in Croatia, 33 of them, are strictly protected by the Nature Protection Act.
The workshops are conducted by employees of the Grabovača Pećinski Park Public Institution with the help of volunteers from the "Nature Protection 6" project from Denmark, Georgia and Spain.
Grabovača - travel thousands of years back
Grabovača Cave Park it is the only cave park in Europe, and is located in the territory of the Municipality of Perušić in Lika. Water enriched with dissolved carbon dioxide with its mechanical and chemical power destroyed and dissolved carbonate rocks on the surface of the relief and in the depths of the Grabovača underground. This is how countless scratches, oysters, sinkholes were created on the surface, and many pits and caves underground.
On a relatively small area of only 1,5 square kilometers, there are eight caves and one pit. Five caves are protected in the category of geomorphological nature monument, a Samograd cave is the most famous speleological object of this cave park and the only cave that is open to visitors.
///The only cave park in Europe is in Lika
The entrance to the Samograd cave is reminiscent of a cathedral, and along the entire length of the cave you can follow steps carved by hand into the sigovin, and the cave is 345 meters long. In the interior of the cave, parts of ceramic dishes and bones from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages were found. About the Samograd cave, the first news about a cave in Croatia was published in 1889.
