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INFOS
Bookings
Lodge of the Park of the Apuan Alps
Via IV Novembre, 70
55040 Levigliani di Stazzema (Lucca)
tel./fax 0584/778405
e-mail:
info@antrocorchia.it
About the route and the proper outfit to wear
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Total length of the route: 1978 m (1642 inside the
natural gallery and 336 inside the artificial gallery);
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maximum difference in height: 43 m (total difference in
height there and back: 356 m);
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touring time (rests included): 2 h about;
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air temperature almost even at 7.6 ° C during the year;
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it is necessary to wear a sweater, trekking boots or, at least, rubber
sole shoes.
Technical features
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Bored artificial gallery: 168 m (2873 cubic
m of discarded materials)
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Equipped natural gallery: 1024 m
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Gangways: 646 m (204 elements and 1005 steps)
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Stainless steel used: 53.398 kg
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Cables installed: 24.300 m
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Light spots indexed: 109 along the route and 300 out of
it.
HOW
TO BEHAVE PROPERLY IN THE CAVE
Resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the
Park of the Apuan Alps, n°27, of July 14th 2001
During the visit of the Corchia’s Cave, including the artificial
gallery, it is forbidden:
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to smoke;
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to bring in animals;
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to take photos or to film;
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to touch stalactites, stalagmites or any carbonate concretion either
fossil or alive;
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to remove, damage or pick up concretions, minerals and rocks;
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to scratch or dirty with graffiti and the like, any rock, or any other
natural element and equipment in the cave;
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to throw anything in the water or against the equipments and the natural
elements;
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to leave the equipped routes and to climb over the barriers or the
protection parapets;
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to drop rubbish of any kind.
Resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the
Park of the Apuan Alps, n°27, of July 14th 2001
In addition to what is clearly stated at the previous points, being
awaiting to know the load capacity of the Corchia’s cave system, at the end of
the monitoring activity, it is also forbidden:
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to take any group of visitors or speleologists along the equipped stretch
of the Corchia’s cave, whenever
it is consisting of more than 50 people each.
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to leave the lighting system on for a lapse of time superior to that
necessary for each group of visitors to pass, with the exception of the
emergency lights.
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to leave the equipped route or to climb over the barriers and the
protective parapets, with the exception of the speleologists in need of
crossing the equipped stretch to continue in other galleries or shafts.
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to exploit any cleaning system, suited to clean the equipment or the
concretions, containing cleansing chemicals, surface-active agents, etc.,
with the exception of
sodium hypo chlorite low concentration.
Resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the
Park of the Apuan Alps, n°27, of July 14th 2001
With regard to the speleologists’ behaviour in the equipped stretch of
the Corchia’s cave, in addition to what stated at the previous points, it is
also forbidden:
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to enter the artificial gallery, if not specifically allowed in case of
transport of bulky materials, or to meet particular work reasons,
with the exception of emergency and rescue operations.
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to clutter the route with any equipment and not to grant the passing or
the precedence to the visitors, so as to compel them to wait a long time and
to the deviate their path.
Resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the
Park of the Apuan Alps, n°27, of July 14th 2001
Along the unpaved road leading to the artificial entrance of the
Corchia’s cave, as well as in any area external to such entrance, it is
forbidden:
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to go camping and to make fires in the open;
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to produce any high-sounding emission by means of amplifiers, radios or
TV sets;
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to carry out any advertising or commercial activity, if not expressly
authorised by the Park of the Apuan Alp;
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the unauthorised flight of any aircraft over the Cave, with the exception
of what stated by the laws about the flight rules and regulations;
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the access and the parking of any vehicle, with the exception of those
that are each time allowed to. Are
exceptions also the service or rescue vehicles, as well as those belonging
to the owner of buildings reachable only following such road.
However, according to the agreement made with agreement protocol and
passed with the resolution n°10 of July 16th 1998, it does not
apply neither to the vehicles owned by people in need of going along this
road for job reasons, nor to those necessary to the speleological activity
of the groups associated to the F.S.T.
Resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the Park of the Apuan
Alps, n°51, of November 30th 2001
The access and the parking of any vehicle along the unpaved road leading
to the Corchia’s Cave, is not forbidden during the winter closure of the karst
cave’s stretch equipped for its tourist enjoyment.
Any transgression of the prohibitions mentioned above, as well as those
stated in the article 31, paragraph 2, of the regional law of August 11th
1997, n°65, will be punished according to the administrative fines mentioned in
the article 27, paragraph 1, of the same law.
HOW
TO GET INFOS ABOUT THE ACCOMODATION FACILITIES AND THE GUIDED TOURS THROUGHOUT
THE AREA OF THE REGIONAL PARK OF THE APUAN ALPS
“Documentation
and visitors reception centre” of the Regional Park of the Apuan Alps:
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Castelnuovo Garfagnana (Lucca), piazza delle Erbe, 1 tel./fax 0583/644242
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Forno (Massa-Carrara), by ex filanda – tel./fax 0585/315300; “tourist
information board”
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Seravezza (Lucca), via Corrado del Greco, 11 tel./fax
0584/756144
e.mail:
info@parcapuane.toscana.it
- internet: www.parcapuane.toscana.it
OTHER
TOURISTIC CAVES IN THE APUAN ALPS
Grotta
del Vento, Fornovalasco di Vergemoli (Lucca), tel. 0583/722024 – fax
0583/722053 – e.mail: info@grottadelvento.com;
grotta di Equi, Equi Terme di Fivizzano (Massa-Carrara) tel./fax 0585/97544.
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