PETRALONA CAVE
Cave inhabited by hominids around 250,000 years ago. Guided tour and museum (flint, human and animal fossils).
This 10,400m2 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.
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