PETRALONA CAVE

This 10,400^m2 cave (Σπήλαιο Πετραλώνων/Spilaio Petralonon) is famous for its "Petralona Man", a fossilized skull discovered here in 1960, whose age and nature have been hotly debated: undoubtedly that of a 150,000-250,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis. The 1,500 m-long trail plunges beneath the small Katsika ("goat") mountain, with a final room featuring superb stalactites and stalagmites. In the adjoining museum: stone tools, human and animal fossils (bears, hyenas, aurochs...) from the cave.