Wind Cave

About 200 million years ago, on the bottom of a sea similar to the current Tyrrhenian Sea, large quantities of shells, coral formations, fish skeletons, sand, mud and calcium carbonate chemically precipitated by evaporation of the water began to deposit. These sediments, with variations in their quantity and composition, accumulated layer after layer for at least 170 million years, forming a layer thousands of meters thick. The considerable weight of this accumulation caused the compression and cementation of the materials, gradually transforming them into limestone rock.

About twenty million years ago, intense orogenic movements caused by continental drift raised this rocky mass. Subjected to strong stresses, it fractured deeply as it emerged from the sea and gradually formed the mountains we know today.