CAVES OF SARDINIA: Neptune's Cave - Alghero ( SS)

The Neptune's cave takes its name from the Roman god of the sea; it is the most famous amoung Sardinia's caves.

It can be reached by a flight of steps,the "Escala del Cabirol", which clings to the ridge west of the head reaching the mouth of the cave or by sea, trough boats departing from the' main port of Alghero. It's a service that operates during the tourist season (summertime) and the package includes transfer and visit in about three hours. The access to the cave is feasible through a passage covered of vegetation,until reaching a lake fed by the sea.

La cave offers a setting of incomparable beauty and characterized by exceptional concretions and the limpidity of its inland lake. It's a huge cave which has a total length of 2,500 meters, with several "halls", wide galleries, crystalline lakes, deep wells, narrow tunnels that make its stucture very complex.

Through a footpath is possile to get to a column that rises up to the natural
archway roof whith which forms other two spectacular arches.
Further, columns course leads to the lake hollow,called "the Palace", from where you can admire a white sandy beach, and, in the farthest part of the cave, you can also see a natural "terrace" called "the music Tribune".

To the right side, where it opens an area closed to the public and accessible only by speleologist, we found a path that leads up to that is commonly known as "Mushrooms Lake", and then, through a tunnel called "The Subway, to the huge hall where the right-hand side is occupied by the known as "Lunar Lake"

Geologically the "Capo Caccia" promontory that hosts the whole cave system, it seems to consists by rocks of the Cretaceous period , whose age is between 135 and 65 million years.