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Muierilor Cave, Symbol of Fertility and Holiness
If you crawl on a small portion of about 2 metres, you'll reach a small room, that leads to the "Electrician's Hall". Another area worth visiting is the "Bears' Gallery", named like this because of the numerous skeletons and fossils found, mostly belonging to bears from ages ago. The walls of this gallery are adorned with hieroglyphs, leopard skins and spoons.
The visitors are not the only living creatures who enter this cave, since there are entire colonies of bats hanging from the ceilings, creating a grey layer at the top of the galleries. Among the other animals present in Muierilor's Cave there are also centipedes, pseudoscorpions and spiders. Since we've mentioned bats, we must also mention the "Guano Room", probably the places where you'll find most of the fauna in the cave.
Moving on, there's a 15 metre gallery, where the ceiling of the cave descends down to almost a metre height and this place bears the name of the "Silver Ceiling". Next comes the "Arcade Hall", with a very tall ceiling, supported by semicilindrical arches. You should also remember to visit the "Bleeding Rock", a symbol of a homo sapiens' sacrifice, portrayed by the millennia of ferous oxyde dripping on the limestone ornaments.
The first information regarding the Muerilor Cave dates back from 1870, when archaeologist Al. Odobescu mentions it one of his works. The cave can be accessed from 3 places, via its southern, eastern and northern entries. The first two entries are places where the old underground river used to flow. Before leaving the cave, make sure that you visit the "Pearls' Halls", a room with a low ceiling, but also with a wonderful rock curtain at the entry known as the "Bride's Veil". The floor of this room looks like a mosaic, thanks to the numerous pearls and crystals embedded in it.
The Muierilor Cave can be visited daily from May 1st to October 1st from 9 am to 8 pm (last entry at 7 pm), with a break from 1 pm to 2 pm Mondays and Tuesdays. From October 1st to May 1st, you'll only be able to visit this monument from 9 am to 5 pm (last entry at 4 pm). All entries are done hourly in groups ranging from 4 adults to 100. Adults will have to pay 1.3 EUR for a ticket, while children, students and seniors citizens will pay 0.5 EUR. The video/photo fee is 1.3 EUR as well.
Author: Alex Stanescu
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