Cova de Nerola

The current entrance is closed by a grille; after it, the access point is provided with some masonry steps that allow us to descend a small drop of about three metres until we are at the foot of a rectilinear gallery that follows the NW-SE direction for almost 30 m in length and that progressively gains height until it reaches some 7 or 8 m in height, while the floor continues with a gentle slope up to a small step, almost towards the end, and which leads us to two small semicircular cavities. Some ten metres before the end of the gallery, we can climb a small drop on our right, where another joint converges that leads along a narrow gallery, at the foot of which there are two narrow shafts of 4 and 8 m in depth that constitute the lowest point of the cavity. Further on, on the left, the gallery communicates by means of elliptical conduits with the final little chambers of the main gallery, while if we continue climbing linearly some four metres, we reach the bottom of the cavity.

Standing once again at the start, almost beside the steps we find on our left an elliptical conduit that communicates with the main chamber with dimensions of 18x3x10 m, which is structured on a joint parallel to that of the main gallery. In the middle of the chamber, after a small drop, we find a second passage that leads us to a modest final chamber.

In the modest final chamber there is a beautiful wall formation known as “la cascada” in the form of a flowstone that, although like the rest of the lithogenic processes of the cavity it has suffered a certain vandalism from visitors, is in a better state, and is the feature that gives the cave most of its character. At the very top of this formation, there is a small conduit of difficult access that quickly becomes closed.

The current entrance is closed by a grille; after it, the access point is provided with some masonry steps that allow us to descend a small drop of about three metres until we are at the foot of a rectilinear gallery. Some ten metres before the end of the gallery, we can climb a small drop on our right, where another joint converges that leads along a narrow gallery, at the foot of which there are two narrow shafts of 4 and 8 m in depth that constitute the lowest point of the cavity. Further on, on the left, the gallery communicates by means of elliptical conduits with the final little chambers of the main gallery, while if we continue climbing linearly some four metres, we reach the bottom of the cavity. Standing once again at the start, almost beside the steps we find on our left an elliptical conduit that communicates with the main chamber. In the middle of the chamber, after a small drop, we find a second passage that leads us to a modest final chamber.

Cave of 144 metres in length in Vimbodí i Poblet.