The route ran through the channel of the Rambla de la Santa, to achieve Morti forest house where the hill was reached the palmettos, after passing through the site of the Locusts.
Access to the cave of the coin was made along the path of the Black Wall pipe and the hill of the cathedral.
The return of this route of 11 kilometers and 400 meters of altitude was made following an old water pipeline built in the eighteenth century, which led to the hiker to the vicinity Campix Marsh.
The route concluded about 13h.
tasting a juicy snack at the site of the Alquerias.
The cave of the coin, while not even the long and deep natural Espuņa cave is known, probably because of its proximity to the town center, by the easy accessibility to the entrance of the cave, for present an opening large enough to see much of your camera bovedal from outside.
The formation of this cave, is produced by the dissolution of calcium carbonate present in the calcareous rock due to the combined action of rain water filtration CO2 in the air.
The curiosity of this training is predominantly to only have a camera, lacking more galleries or other adjacent chambers.
The presence of stalactites, stalagmites and columns of calcium make this corner of geography totanera a natural spectacle worthy of being known.
However, the difficulties to enter the cave, makes very difficult right now to head down into the cave.
His name, has led to have many popular legends such as that inside is hidden a treasure of the Middle Ages or the end of the Spanish civil war, Republican coins were minted inside.
Although they are only legends, the most curious of human presence in the cave, is the presence of "Graffiti" of the seventeenth century by a certain Pedro Martinez who was in the cave about 1620 and left on one wall your name and year of your visit.
The special conditions of humidity, temperature and dissolved water with calcium, have retained these curious paintings.
The next activity Totana hiking club will take place on May 5, to crown the Almanciles peak in the Sierra de Ricote.
