The Cave Polovragi
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Caves always excited people imagination. Everything about them is mysterious, secretly and fabulous. Their appearance itself and the fact that there are underground formations incite, but fed with a little imagination, they create myths and legends.
This is the case of Polovragi Cave, too. The name of this cave is closely connected to the name of the god Zamolxis, the spiritual leader of the Dacians. To each tourist who step in the cave it is told the legend that says there lived Zamolxis. Being a god endowed with supernatural powers, he could change his appearance as he wanted, old or young. Through the Polovragi Cave, the Dacian god came inside the earth then to be able to come out over the mountains, in Sarmisegetusa.
When the cave was firstly explored, about one hundred years ago, the speleologists were no doubt Dacian. In the area there circulate a lot of rumors about the hidden treasures in the cave Polovragi, which are accursed. These rumors are accompanied by the many stories about the cases of disappearance of shepherds and flocks in the area.
The cave is located on the territory of Polovragi locality, between Horezu and Baia de Fier (Iron Bath), in the Gorj County, Romania. The name of Polovragi, according to Professor Nicolae Simionescu, comes from the existence of a field “Paleo”, where gathered all the Dacian wizards and initiates, who could treat any disease existing at that time, with a plant named Polovragi from which comes the name of Polovragi. Today this plant is disappeared.
The cave has a length of 11 km (the part that was investigated), but it is estimated to have more than 25 km.
The route is arranged to visit by tourists is of 900 meters.
It is visible an oven to prepare, by Dacian wizards, the plant of Polovragi and its root, embedded in limestone.
In sunny and hot summer days, the cave is a comfortable destination, its depths welcomes you with “open arms” of 9 centigrade. Cool off in the cave of Polovragi!
The distance from Chisinau to Polvragi Cave is 691 km.
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