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Grotta Piacenti

Grotta Piacenti

A 70 m hypogenic cave with a horizontal/vertical trend, opening inside a house in Cesi and featuring strong air flows.

Terni 70m 18m

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Grotta Piacenti

A 70 m hypogenic cave with a horizontal/vertical trend, opening inside a house in Cesi and featuring strong air flows.

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Longueur: 70 m · Profondeur: 18 m

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A 70 m hypogenic cave with a horizontal/vertical trend, opening inside a house in Cesi and featuring strong air flows.

Caractéristiques

  • Type: Grotte
  • Municipalité: Terni
  • N° de cadastre: UM77
  • Longueur: 70 mètres
  • Profondeur: 18 mètres
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Situation

Route: 85 m, 3 minutes. Once in the built-up area of Cesi, from the small square by the pharmacy head EAST, following the SP22 downhill; after about 400 km park on the right in the small spaces between the low walls near a white house set above road level. Take the small pedestrian strip along the side of the house until you reach it; the cave is in the bathroom of the house and is entered through a window in the wall.

Entrance: entered through a window at the side of the bathroom wall; the cave was obstructed but two hours of digging cleared the entrance.

Entrance setting: urban, man-made, building.

Access: fence, private property; the cave opens inside the house of Mr. Pappalardo just outside the built-up area of Cesi.

Locality: Cesi, Gallarana, Gli Stalletti.

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  1. Grotta Piacenti

    Altitude: 415 m

    42.607300, 12.589010
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Description

Morphologie

A series of galleries 70 m in development. From the entrance it continues along an inclined meander until reaching a large fissure that climbs partially. Lower down the cave bifurcates. Trend: horizontal/vertical. Traversability: experts only; recommended period all year round.

Geology: MAS Limestone Massiccio - Lower-Upper Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian); massive limestones; massive; hypogenic cavity. It has many replacement pockets and hypogenic morphologies.

Spéléothèmes

Presence of typical cauliflower speleothems indicating strong air circulation.

Hydrologie

The cavity is hypogenic and blows a lot of air; it blows when it is hot, it always blows. Internal temperature 13.6 °C. Air flows: flow 0.9 mc/s (0.4*0.4 * 8.1 m/s * 0.7 coeff), about 50 mc/min. All the air of the cave reaches a small chamber at the bottom right that can be dug; measurements of 04/08/2024.

Histoire

Notes on the name: it takes its name from the owner of the house at the time of its discovery.

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Bibliographie

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 MATTIOLI B. (1970) Considerazioni genetiche su alcuni depositi di Mondmilch dell'Italia centrale

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Source : Catasto Cavità Umbria (Federazione Umbra Gruppi Speleologici, FUGS) (catasto.fugs.it), avec modifications. LicenseRef-FUGS-no-licence-stated Federazione Umbra Gruppi Speleologici (FUGS), Catasto Speleologico dell'Umbria · https://catasto.fugs.it/index.php?mod=caves&op=view&id=77 · données de 2025 · Source : Catasto Cavità Umbria (Federazione Umbra Gruppi Speleologici, FUGS) (catasto.fugs.it), avec modifications. LicenseRef-FUGS-media-per-item Federazione Umbra Gruppi Speleologici (FUGS), Catasto Speleologico dell'Umbria · données de 2025