ITALY ~Frasassi Caves~

My first received postcard of an underground temple...a natural beauty!!(IT-199669)Thanks Lea!!

With great stamp:Europe 2012 - "Visit..." shows the dove in the window above the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, a masterful work by Bernini symbolizing the Holy Spirit. (Issued 11-05-2012)

These are located in the Italian region Marches, in the province of Ancona, in the Regional Natural Park of Gola della Rossa and Frasassi.
Only discovered in the 1971 the Grotte di Frasassi is one of the largest known cave systems in Europe, and has an impressive array of stalactites and stalagmites along the 1500 metres of accesible caverns.