The pretty cave in the Island of La Palma



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The pretty cave. Well-known like cave of Candelaria, it is by the hundred located this
geologic wonder of the nature meters of the opening of the Jurado, if it is acceded from
the sea. This precious and singular grotto is just under one of the manifold and rustic cliffs that lay out the tijarafera coast. Within the cave the vault that covers jaspeada with blue, white can be admired and green as if it was of marble, the clear bottom of the same one where they run of a side for another multitude of pececillos that recreate I animate and the Vista. This cave has two great mouths by where constantly it enters and it leaves the sea.
The interior of the cave is of great dimensions and depth.

 

The old and ancestral oral tradition of the inhabitants of this part of the island, tells that throughout century XVII, during the berberiscas and Muslim incursions to the island, many fishermen saved their life thanks to this cave, since they entered by a side and they left
by the other. In the proximity of this cave coming from Tazacorte a projection exists that receives the name of Punta del Moro. By his characteristics it has been described by
geologists and specialistic oceanographers like only. If it is visited the dusk, when the light
is reflected in its waters, where the spectacle is huge when observing the changes of hundreds of colors that are changing gradually in the ceiling, where in capricious carved natural drawings in the stone are forming figures and forms. At the present time the pretty cave form starts off by right of the heráldico shield of the municipality of Tijarafe.

 










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