La Cueva Victoria opens its doors on Saturday August 13 at just over 300 visitors will learn about the latest findings discovered by the group of experts and archaeologists in the last campaign of excavations, which has been going on since July 15 and ends Aug. 15.
At noon today they have closed the entries that had been made ​​in the Office of Tourism of the City of Cartagena, once it has met the quota of visits, with 15 groups of about 20 people who will access the cave in 20 minutes between 9.00 and 13.40 hours, and two groups that will visit in the afternoon.
Visitors will have the opportunity to see from inside the only site of fossil vertebrates in the Region of Murcia, which was established on the eastern slope of Cerro de San Ginés de la Jara naturally more than 1,100,000 years, although the cavity we know today has been transformed by subsequent mining.
Among the findings of this latest campaign, remember that 400 have been found new fossils, including remains of human bones and primate, as well as a species of deer than ever before.
The research project of the Victoria Cave, which direct the doctors and Carlos Luis Gibert Ferrandez, is driven by the Sierra Minera Tourist Consortium, comprising the municipalities of Cartagena and La Union.
By the end of this year, is expected to be opened Cueva Victoria site to the public.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena