If the tickets available online are sold out, it is still possible to buy them at the Ticket Office of the Caves, in San Vittore delle Chiuse. Admission is guaranteed.
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ATTENTION! Tickets ARE NOT REFUNDABLE, in case of non-use or arrival after the time written on the ticket. It will therefore be necessary to pay another ticket for a subsequent tour. Access to dogs is allowed only with a pet carrier, not on a leash. For large dogs, 3 concrete dog boxes with a lockable front grille with padlock are available at the ticket office parking lot.
Located in a safe and shady place, they are not guarded. The visitor can use the pit space for a limited period of time for the visit to the cave, it cannot be booked and availability is requested once they arrive on site.
Stalactites, stalagmites, lime-castings and crystallised small lakes, which represent the most beautiful element of the caves, are the final expression of the long work of raining water on the rock. Limestone, in Frasassi, is largely covered with impermeable grounds (Mountain Vallemontagna); raining water doesn't filter in that area but along the breaks : here it transforms calcium-carbonate of the rock in calcium-bicarbonate which is soluble. Inside the cave this chemical process is reversed. Bicarbonate , after giving up CO2 , becomes insoluble and deposits producing wonderful concretions; on the vault, calcium stalactites originated from a small cylinder of calcite where drops passed and then enormously grown.
The concretions at the base of the rooms are called stalagmites, which are the result of the impact of drops on the ground. In the Big Cave of Wind, because of its vastness, the water has to cover a great distance before touching the ground, then it becomes much saturated and besides depositing calcium-carbonate in the impact point, it crusts the around area. This mechanism allowed the formation of giant stalagmites. When concretions increase their size enormously, may meet forming columns of various colour and shape.