Grotta delle Torri di Slivia (Cave of the Towers of Silvia), owes its name to the majestic stalagmites (towers) that appeared before the eyes of the first official expedition of speleologists of the "Società degli Alpinisti Triestini", on 6 January 1885. Pejca v Lascu (in Slovenian), is the name the locals know it by.
The cave, 554 meters long, has been known for time immemorial thanks to the chasm that opens in a slight depression of the ground, and was one of the first caves in the Karst region of Trieste to be explored.
It is located near the farm by the same name and can be visited between March and November.
Guided trips to one of the most spectacular caves in the Karst plateau, Grotta di Slivia, one of the three queens of the Karst, are starting again.
The cave has an internal staircase alongside its natural well which takes visitors down into the heart of the cave to a depth of around seventy metres where the tourist route ends. Then the cave disappears into narrow tunnels and drops all the way to the waters underlying the Karst plateau at a depth of 101 metres.
Guides accompany visitors in their exploration of the spectacular natural setting of the underground caves of the Trieste Karst with their incredible formations: stalactites, stalagmites, gours, cave curtains, soda straws, chandeliers and the group of monumental stalagmite towers the cave is named after.
The cave runs underneath Azienda Agricola Le Torri di Slivia's land and is the only privately managed tourist cave in Italy. The info point/ticket office is inside the estate's farm holiday building.
