LoCo 2694 Centro Valle Intelvi, variant "low" path to Mt Generoso, alt. 1450 l. over 200, 70 mt visitable, entrance fee (Booking here: https://www.mendrisiottoturismo.ch/en/commons/details/Bear-s-Cave/14911.html). The path starts from the car park in Orimento and it reaches the cave in about an hour. After a few minutes you come to a small wooden bridge: go up to the left through the woods to the Alpe Pesciò di Mezzo (1368 m) with the remains of a rural drystone settlement: nine families with 400 cattle once lived there. Caution: the site is abandoned and rather unsafe. The trail then climbs steeply up to the "Sella d'Orimento", with a magnificent view of the Ceresio. Carry on along a wide flat path and in a few minutes you'll arrive at the entrance to the "Bear Cave".

The Bear Cave is a hole carved out by water over millions of years, which contains a fossil deposit. The Pleistocene paleontological site (over 50,000 years ago) has been the subject of research by scholars at the University of Milan. The excavations, carried out over the course of 20 years, have brought to light over 40,000 Ursus Spelaeus fossils, the cave bear (extinct for 20,000 years), but that wasn't all; the remains have allowed us to identify the animals which lived in this area: lots of small mammals (mice, voles and shrew), the Irish elk or megaloceros (with antlers of 3.5 metres), the moose, the ibex, the wolf, the brown bear. Some flint artefacts attest to the presence of Neanderthal Man.

The Bear Cave is open from may to october: Saturday, Sunday, italian and swiss holidays

For prices, quotes or other information write to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

or call the following number: +39 388/1578121

The visit lasts 40 minutes and you are always accompained by a guide

It is recommended that you bring a jacket or other garment with you for the visit.

In case of bad weather the cave will not be available.

Access to the Bear Cave

- the times that can be booked from the website include a visit with an augmented reality viewer; it will be possible to visit the Cave also in the other time  slots without the support of the 3D viewer by writing to the following email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

- Prices:

• guided tour with augmented reality viewer: €. 15,00.=
• ordinary guided tour: €. 10,00.=
• children under 8 years: free

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