The Bear Cave is located in the town of Chișcău in Bihor county, România. It was discovered by chance in 1975 during some local mining operations. The cave is 1.5 km long, of which 521 m has been declared a scientific reservation. Due to rockfalls at the entrance, the cave was blocked, and more than 140 bears were trapped forever. The bears being very hungry, they attacked each other until none remained alive.
Inside the cave, regardless of the season, the temperature is 10 degrees Celsius.
The name of the cave came from the traces and fossils discovered here, those of the cave bear, Ursus Spelacus, which disappeared 1500 years ago. This bear has fabulous dimensions compared to the bear species existing in Romania and even in the world (4.2 m tall in two paws and weighed 1000 kg).
The Bear Cave is considered among the most beautiful caves in the world. At the entrance to the cave you can admire four galleries:
The Bears Gallery, which is composed of 1500 exhibits, among which are cave bear skulls. Here you can see on the gallery walls traces of soatches left by bears stuck in the cave.
The Emil Ravovita Gallery houses a complete bear skeleton, as well as some bones of other extinct animal species.
The Gallery of Lights, here we find magestic stalagmites and stalactites that formed the magical statuettes (The Mastodont, The Curtains in the gallery of the Bears, The Portal, The Pagedele).
The lake with water lilies similar to those in wax, of immaculate white.
