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Marco Topo in Nerja Cave
This adventure is an interactive game for discovering Nerja Cave as a family, one of Andalusia’s most important geological and archaeological sites. Using your mobile phones, you will solve different challenges at emblematic points inside this cave in Maro, a village belonging to Nerja in Málaga province. You can start playing by clicking the button below.
- Public: Familles et écoles
- Format: À pied
- Langues: ES
Discover Nerja by playing
In this adventure, Marco Topo and his friends invite you to discover Nerja Cave, one of the largest and most spectacular caves in Andalusia. It is of great geological interest, with a complex network of underground galleries and chambers extending for more than 7,000 metres. The route open to visitors covers only a small part of this vast underground complex formed by karst erosion. Over thousands of years, water filtered through the rock and created internal watercourses that gradually formed the caverns and unusual geological structures found inside them. The tourist visit takes in some of the cave’s most emblematic spaces: the Entrance Hall, the Cascade Chamber, the Nativity Chamber, the Ghosts Chamber and the Cataclysm Chamber. As well as stalactites and stalagmites, you will see formations such as gours, soda straws and draperies. Their shapes are remarkable. Nerja Cave is also of considerable biological importance. Different kinds of troglobitic animals live inside it: small creatures that have adapted to life in the darkness. They have lived in isolation for so long that they are sometimes described as living fossils, and their study provides valuable information for researchers. Although the cave paintings are not open to the public for conservation and accessibility reasons, the cave walls contain one of the world’s major collections of prehistoric rock art and are therefore of exceptional archaeological value. Finally, the Marco Topo game invites you to explore the area outside the cave, a natural landscape crossed by several trails where you can see sinkholes and depressions caused by karst erosion. One is the small opening through which the five young people who discovered the cave system entered in 1959 while following bats.