Škocjan Caves
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How it came to be
On the Karst plateau of south-western Slovenia, the Reka River vanishes underground at the bottom of a great collapse doline and reappears 34 kilometres away near Monfalcone in Italy. The underground passages of the Škocjan Caves run about 6 kilometres and reach a depth of more than 200 metres.
The underground canyon is over 140 metres high and opens into Martel's Chamber, one of the largest underground chambers in Europe. The caves appear in the writings of Posidonius in the 2nd century BC and on a map of 1561, and in 1689 the Carniolan scholar Valvasor described the sink of the Reka.
The caves were inscribed in 1986 and became a Ramsar wetland in 1999. Independent Slovenia created the Škocjan Caves Regional Park, managed with the involvement of local people and schools.
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