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Grotte aux Fées

The Grotte aux Fées (lit. 'Cave of the Fairies') in the cliffs above Saint-Maurice in the Swiss canton of Valais, is a natural limestone solution show cave, featuring a 77-metre (253 ft) high underground waterfall (Cascade de la grotte aux Fées), claimed as the world's highest waterfall in a show cave. The cave was the first show cave in Switzerland.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More caves in Switzerland

  1. Saint-Léonard underground lake4 m deep
  2. Cotencher, Palaeolithic residential cave
  3. Grotte du Bichon
  4. Hölloch Cave
  5. Kesslerloch

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