The Grotta del Vento is located in the center of the Natural Park of the Apuan Alps, under Mount Pania Secca in the municipality of Fabbriche di Vergemoli, in the province of Lucca (Tuscany).
From the Apuan Excursions website. Locally Buca dell’Omo Salvatico. It is located in the municipality of Stazzema, ten minutes from the Del Freo refuge, along path 128 for Puntato and …
Beautiful cave at the foot of Mount Matanna inhabited since prehistoric times.
Archaeological site, the findings of the excavation campaigns are kept in the archaeological museum of Camaiore.
Climbing routes …
In the last stretch to reach the summit of Monte Folgorito there is this small cave which during the Second World War was used as a deposit for the radio station.
They say that from this cave Spallanzani succeeded in discovering how the springs of the rivers are formed. Previously it was thought that the rivers formed from the evaporation of the underground strata