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Pozzo della Piana

Pozzo della Piana

A cave with a sub-horizontal, labyrinthine development, with passages that are often modest in size and locally heavily decorated with speleothems, communicating with the outside through 5 pits between 8 and 21 m deep.

Orvieto System of 3 caves: 2555m 21m

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Pozzo della Piana

A cave with a sub-horizontal, labyrinthine development, with passages that are often modest in size and locally heavily decorated with speleothems, communicating with the outside through 5 pits between 8 and 21 m deep.

Orvieto

Length: 2555 m · Depth: 21 m

Updated record

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A cave with a sub-horizontal, labyrinthine development, with passages that are often modest in size and locally heavily decorated with speleothems, communicating with the outside through 5 pits between 8 and 21 m deep.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Orvieto
  • Cadastre no.: UM56
  • System length: 2555 meters
  • System depth: 21 meters
  • Record updated:

Caves in this system

Location

Location: Titignano, La Roccaccia.

Route: 150 m, 10 min on foot. Once you reach the built-up area of Titignano, take the unpaved road descending to the left of the Castle (if desired, you can leave your vehicle in the parking area in front of the Castle and continue on foot, since the road has steep or broken sections). After about 600 m, at the first junction turn left, then continue for another 2 km until you see a parking pull-off on your right (from where the path to the Roccaccia starts). This is another point where you can leave vehicles. Then continue along the last stretch of road, which has a rough and stony surface, for another 1.5 km, until you reach a pull-off on the left where you can leave vehicles. From here, follow the wide path through the bosco (woods), which gradually passes the various entrances of the cave until, after about 150 m, you reach the obvious main entrance, characterized by a large adjacent space.

Route information: Walkable path, Dangerous access.

Entrance: Wide elongated entrance with a slide of about 10 m.

Entrance context: Natural, Anthropized.

Access: Free access; the road is passable with all types of vehicles although at times steep and broken; the pull-off near the cave is very small.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Pozzo della Piana

    Elevation: 272 m

    42.739701, 12.309979
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

Cave with a sub-horizontal and labyrinthine trend. The passages, often modest in size, are locally heavily decorated with speleothems. It communicates with the outside through 5 pits between 8 and 21 m deep.

Trend: Predominantly horizontal.

Geology: BETWEEN carbonate and travertine deposits - Quaternary (Pleistocene - Holocene); Travertines; Massive.

Progression

Traversability: Demanding; recommended period all year round.

Rigging: Temporary.

Progression difficulty: Drops, narrow passages, meanders, traverses.

Hazards: Dangerous access.

History

Important prehistoric finds have been made there.

Finds: Archaeological, Paleoethnological.

Studies: Archaeological, Paleoethnological, Anthropological.

Bio

Studies and monitoring: Biospeleological.

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Bibliography

DESIDERI E. (1628) Idillii del P. Romani da Bagnorea, parte seconda delle sue poesie ROMANI P. DA BAGNOREA (1628) Idillii del P. Romani da Bagnorea, parte seconda delle sue poesie PETTI L. (1715) La istoria e la vita di Santa Romana ALVI G.B. (1765) Dizionario topografico Tudertino GRUPPO SPELEOLOGICO CAI-CTG PERUGIA (1960) Bollettino 12 - 8 Settembre 1960 LEMMI G. & COLETTI G. (1961) Elenco catastale delle grotte dell'Umbria ANONIMO (1962) Attività del Gruppo Grotte dell'Istituto di Geologia dell'Università di Perugia PASSERI L. (1965) Il Pozzo della Piana I nei travertini di Titignano PASSERI L. (1965) Il pozzo della Piana nei travertini di Titignano MORETTI G.P. & GIANNOTTI F.S. (1967) Quello che si sa dei tricotteri cavernicoli italiani SALVATORI F. (1968) Esplorazioni nel Pozzo della Piana Principale BALBIANO D'ARAMENGO G. & LEMMI G. (1970) Le grotte turistiche d'Italia: L'Umbria PASSERI L. (1970) Ritrovamenti preistorici nei Pozzi della Piana (Umbria) VIVIANI C.G. (1971) L'attività del gruppo Speleologico C.A.I. Perugia nel 1970 PIRRAMI M.M. (1972) Attività 1971 del Gruppo Speleologico Todi SALVATORI F. (1972) Attività del Gruppo Spelelogico C.A.I. Perugia nel anno 1971 ANONIMO (1973) Chiusura dei Pozzi della Piana PASSERI L. (1973) Canalizzazione sotterranea in regime di fluttuazione freatica nel travertino della Piana (Umbria) SPELEO CLUB GUBBIO & CATASTO SPELEOLOGICO DELL'UMBRIA (1977) Mostra speleologico fotografica OSELLA G. (1978) Ricerce sulla fauna appenninica. Una nuova specie di Troglorhynchus Schmidt dell'Umbria TODINI M. (1979) I pozzi della Piana TODINI M. (1979) La speleologia come intervento sul territorio MORETTI G.P. & CIAFICCONI F. (1982) Aggiornamento sulla tricotterofauna cavernicola BANI M. (1991) La protostoria della speleologia nell'Appennino umbro-marchigiano INNAMORATI F. (1991) Brevi note sull'origine siriaca del culto di S.Romana, praticato nelle grotte omonime di Titignano e del Monte Soratte e sulle frequentazioni della Grotta di Titignano fra il XV e il XVIII secolo ARGENTI P. (2003) Plio-Quaternary mammal fossiliferous sites of Umbria (Central Italy) MENICHETTI M. (2011) Hypogenic caves in Western Umbria (Central Italy) DE WAELE J. ET ALII (2014) A review on hypogenic caves in Italy D'ANGELI I.M. ET ALII (2016) Sulfuric Acid Caves of Italy An Overview

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