Etna South Territory: Nicolosi.
Coordinates: 33S 500760E 4170937N (Utm Wgs84) | 37°41'08.3″N 15°00'31.0″E
ELEVATION: 1636 m
Development: Nd.
Nearest known location: Monte Nero del Bosco
Exploration: Not easily accessible, can be visited with only lights and helmet.
Detected by Paolo Teri (on 27.4.2021)
Notified to the relevant municipality on \\
The QuattroMani cave is a modest cavity of about 20 meters of development on the lavas of 1892. A lava tube with a regular shape, in its smallness, but rich in the typical elements of this type of cave. It is accessed from a small entrance where there are two "rolls" of lava due to the detachment of the most superficial sheaths of molten rock during the emptying phase of the conduit. The cave must be traveled almost entirely on the four limbs, hence the name given. The first meters develop horizontally, then climb following the morphology of the slope and stop abruptly with an obstruction. Together with the visit of the nearby Grotta della Volpe, Grotta dei Penitenti and Grotta Garbage, present within a few hundred meters, it can be an interesting visit overall.
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Dario Teri April 27, 2021 Unseen & Little-Known Etna Caves No Responses