Echoes of Eternity: The Living Caves of Cantabria, Spain
<p>That’s what the tour guide said. And said it again. And again. Her halting English words fluttered back from the fluted walls of the tunnel, glancing off stalactites and stalagmites, curling around rock formations that took a hundred million years to emerge.</p>
<p>The cave is alive. The river that carved it out is gone, sunken further underground to burble and chatter in lightless passages at the foundations of the world. The <a href="http://www.spainisculture.com/en/monumentos/cantabria/cuevas_monte_castillo_-_las_monedas.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">money the cave is named after</a>, the twenty gold pieces dating back to the sixteenth century, has vanished away to some museum or another we never visited.</p>
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