"The sky in the Brohl Valley darkened as the Laacher See volcano erupted just five kilometers away. A blazing-hot mixture of lava particles and gases shot into the atmosphere at …

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joetobn

July 21, 2018

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Nice path through different caves / passageways. The Trass caves are a great experience for young and old.

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Yvonne Katrin

October 26, 2017

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13,000 years ago, the Lacher See volcano erupted, so this rock was created. At that time, the Romans cut off large blocks of trass and shipped them across the Rhine to Italy. In the 1800s, trass was mined and processed into a kind of cement in the mills. Today you can see these caves.

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Location: Burgbrohl, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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