2024
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Caves with beautiful walls at 45 m depth like a baroque cathedral with stalactites and stalagmites, encrusted fossils.
These caves can be visited after a descent to a depth of 45 m. There, you will not believe your eyes: the walls are beautiful and well made of limestone inlaid with calcite in places and smoothed by the seepage or flow of water in cascades. The place is comparable to a huge Baroque cathedral that no builder could ever build. The very material seems to change its appearance: here frozen ray wings, there a beast skin. Stalactites and stalagmites respond to each other, encrusted fossils form strange sculptures..
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Opening time and information on GRUTAS DA MOEDA
Visits from 9am to 5pm, until 7pm in summer. Adults €8.50, children €4.5.
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Time spent: 40-50 min in the caves + 20-30 min visit to the interpretation center and tasting of liquor and regional cake.
Price: 8.50 EUR
Visit: always guided [Portuguese, English, Spanish]
Car parking: available
Bike parking: available
Restaurant: available
WC: available
[!]Special point: the temperature is 16-18º C and the place is wet. Choose the right clothes.
The Grutas da Moeda is located in S. Mamede, municipality of Batalha, 3 km from Fátima and 15 km from Batalha. The visitable extension of the Grotto is 350 meters and its depth is around 45 m below the entrance level. The discovery of the place was made in 1971 by two hunters who found it out of curiosity.
>Visits are done in groups, so online tickets do not guarantee immediate entry.
>Children under 5 years of age are free of charge [documents needed], 5-12 y.o. - 4.50 EUR.