Cave of the Cunicoli

Etna East Territory: Zafferana Etnea.
Coordinates: 33S 505355E 4171297N (Utm Wgs84) | 37°41'19.9″N 15°03'38.7″E
ELEVATION: 1250 m
Development: +200 mt total.
Nearest known location: Monte Arcimis
Exploration: Easily accessible and visitable with just lights and helmet.
Taken over by Dario and Paolo Teri (on 23.3.2021)
Notified to the relevant municipality on \\
This cave is located on the lavas of 1792/3, the same flows that gave rise to some of the most beautiful and well-known caves on Etna, including the Grotta dei Tre livello and the Grotta Ktm. The cavity has multiple entrances, the main one has a young chestnut tree that partially blocks the access constituted by a collapse of the vault. However, it is easily accessible without the need for speleological material. The volcanic hypogeum is very particular. In fact, there is a multitude of branches and tunnels that make the morphology very dynamic in the eyes of the observer, hence the attribution of the name considered more appropriate. However, there are 2 main branches, the result of the bifurcation of the lava flow. One is wider and easier, the other is narrower but still passable. After about a hundred meters the cave branches again, one of the two branches gradually becomes blocked, while a second to the right narrows into a channel from whose vault an access opens. Here a small mountain ash tree grew. In the cave there are all the characteristic elements of Etna cavities due to the passage of lava: pendants and rolls, shelves etc. At the time of the survey there were no typical little men or other signs of anthropic passage, leading to the hypothesis that it could be an unpublished or very little known cave.
In the immediate vicinity there are 2 other caves discovered by the same “explorers”: the Spiderman cave and the Blister cave.
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Dario Teri 23 March 2021 Unseen & Little-Known Etna Caves No Responses