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Cuevas de Castañar

Castañar de Ibor, Villuercas-Ibores-Jara, Cáceres

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Cuevas de Castañar

Nature · Castañar de Ibor, Villuercas-Ibores-Jara, Cáceres

Image of Castañar de Ibor, not of the place itself.

Discovered in 1967 and declared a Natural Monument in 1997, they feature fine aragonite speleothems and preserve 540-million-year-old fossils of Cloudina carinata, among the oldest invertebrate remains in Europe.

declaradas Monumento Natural en 1997

Photo: Luis Rogelio HM (CC BY-SA 2.0)

What to see and do in Castañar de Ibor