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Cave Museum
Pradis di Sotto
ADDRESS OF CELL: Piazza IV Novembre, 6
ZIP code: 33090 CITY: Pradis di Sotto PROV: PN
TEL: 333 5932336 Ass. Culturale Pradis
E-MAIL: associazione.pradis@gmail.com
MANAGER: Ass. Culturale Pradis
WEBSITE: https://www.associazioneculturalepradis.it/
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The Museum was born as permanent collection set up in the old primary school of Pradis di Sotto in 1969 by means of Comitato Culturale Pradis (nowadays Associazione Culturale Pradis) and Gruppo Speleologico Pradis but it was closed due to an earthquake in 1976. The current location, that was opened in 2001, is very close to the Green Caves.
The exhibition shows the cave world from the point of view of its frequentation of animals and men, through an exposition of paleontological remains and archaeological finds, results of casual discovery and recent scientific surveys. The collection is completed by a section of fossils and minerals also of local origin.
The itinerary starts with a copy of the cave bear, whose remains were found in the caverns of the plateau of Pradis. There were many of these mammals during the last ice age (Würm, 100,000-110,000 years ago), up to the extinction around 20,000 years ago. The reasons of its extinction were mainly due to climatic and environmental changes occurred at the end of the last ice age.
The exhibition ends with a section dedicated to the local ethno-speleology and to the Bear Cave and with another one dedicated to fossils and minerals. After a brief introduction on sedimentary rocks and on sea environment of the Cretaceous and the Miocene, visitors can find some fossils that come from the Pradis Plateau and from the hills around Castelnovo del Friuli.
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