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Fig. 14 Ancient quarry in the
archaeomining area of the
marble in
which it is possible to reconstruct
the main phases of excavation
(southern Apuan Alps Geopark;
see location in Fig. 4 )
Bardiglio Cappella
Fig. 15 Water out ows from the
perpetual karst spring of Equi
Terme during oods (northern
Apuan Alps Geopark; see
location in Fig. 4 ) (photo by
Leonardo Piccini)
The Equi Terme Cave stretches over a total of 1,500, 320
m of which are open to the public, including the Tecchia
prehistoric Cave. The tourist offer is enriched by the Museum
of the Caves, an educational exhibition on the physical
landscape of surrounding areas and the palaeo-environment in
which Neanderthals coexisted with cave bears.
As previously mentioned, the tourist activity in the Equi
Terme Cave started in 1964 but only since 2001, thanks to
an agreement between the Fivizzano Municipality and the
Apuan Alps Geopark, the goal of making all the Equi Terme
geosites a tourist network has been achieved. In 2013, the
Karst-palaeontological Park was further integrated with the
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