Travel Europe | Postojna Cave (EN) Grotte Hohle – SLOVENIA SLOVENIJA

WORLD FAMOUS ATTRACTION (official video 2011) Europe – Slovenia – Postojna English link: www.postojnska-jama.si – already 34 000 000 visitors – 200 years of tradition www.postojnska-jama.si Postojnska jama, dd Postojna Jamska cesta 30, SI – 6230 Postojna Tel: +386 (0)5 7000 100 sales.dpt@postojnska-jama.si The Postojna Cave is a 20-km long karst cave system, a web of underground passages, galleries and chambers, which has in almost 200 years been visited by over 34 million people accompanied by experienced cave guides. It is both the largest cave of the Classical Karst and the show cave with the largest numbers of visitors in Europe. Throughout its history it has posed a great challenge for daring explorers who have shown enormous effort and persistence and managed to penetrate further and further into the underground world. The most interesting passages were in 1818 discovered by Luka Čeč and no later than a year after the cave was already set up as a show cave. The far-sighted cave management deserves credit for the fact that it did not take long for all the newly discovered parts of the cave to be equipped for large numbers of visitiors. Prior to that, the visitors had only been able to access the passages not far from the entrance, where signatures of visitors to the cave have been recorded since the 13th century onwards. In 1872, railway tracks were laid in the cave and in 1884 electricity was installed. Nowadays visitors can satisfy their curiosity by learning about …