On Friday, February 7, 2025, Grabovača Cave Park and Samograd Cave open their doors to visitors. During February, it will be possible to tour the cave with a guide Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, in certain terms – in I 12 14 hours. The souvenir shop is open from 10 a.m. to 15 p.m. Ticket prices are 10 euros for adults and 6 euros for children.
The offer for visitors has been enriched with new features this year: in order to learn more about the microclimatic properties of the cave, temperature measuring devices which visitors can read when visiting the cave, and in order to prepare in advance for the conditions in the cave, visitors can "walk through the cave" with the help of virtual reality glasses which are located in the souvenir shop.
In addition to the cave, there are educational and hiking trails, lookouts, a hobbit house and children's playgrounds. The average temperature in the cave is 8°C, so we recommend warm clothing and footwear suitable for walking in nature!
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 natural monument, and the 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 resembles a cathedral, and you can walk along the entire length of the cave by steps hand-carved in sigovin, and the cave is 345 meters long. Parts of ceramic dishes and bones from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages were found inside the cave. About the Samograd cave, the first news about a cave in Croatia was published in 1889.
The area of Grabovača is characterized by a great variety of ecological systems and habitats and a large number of speleological facilities. Throughout history, this area has been the scene of intense and continuous human life from prehistory to the present day. The park is rich in cultural and historical heritage and offers visitors the opportunity to go back thousands of years.
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