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“To average coast of the mount, three quarters of hour over Comerio, between Varese and Gavirate, to the height of 685 meters approximately, are opened right in the middle a Prato, with the most innocent aspect, one small hole, wide 50 centrimetri in a sense and a meter and half in the other. E' this therefore said Hole of the Remeron, that all the peasants of the outskirtses know, and where nobody he is penetrated more than some meter, because it is not comfortable transaction. “

Therefore Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli described in its reports first eplorazione of the Remeron Cove in 1900

Today to single ten minuteren from Varese, in the frame of the Park Field of the Flowers, it is possible to visit the Remeron, along the distance tourist scenograficamente illuminated penetrating itself in the heart of the mountain until to quota -50 meters from the income; one reduction only in one of the most famous coves of the Lombardy, than still intact conserve the fascination of the exploration.

 
 
 
 

Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli - the first explorer of the Cove Remeron

 

Until to 1900 the cove remained unexplored, unless for little meters to the income, and on it bloomed legends of witches, hidden treasures, fabulous animals and communications secret with the lago of Varese.
In the 1900 Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli with Luigi Orrigoni, Don Giacomo Pensotti and Don Luigi Tadini of undertaken the exploration, arriving in several resumptions until to the rivers of a small lake to quota - 175 meters from the income that taken its name.
First part of the cove, easy suborizzontale was opened to the public in 1913, after to have been equipped with ladders in reinforced concrete and a system of lighting to acetylene that worked for twenty or so years.

In years 1924/26 some shipments from a comeriese were organized, Felice Binda, in order to already exceed Lago Bertarelli that it had arrested the first exploratory ones; in all these trying to you it was not never succeeded to exceed the lago for which it had to wait for the 1934 perché during one organized shipment from the Groups Coves of Como, Milan and Desio, with the participation de CAI of Varese, came decreased a cajak on the rivers of the Bertarelli and, exceeding it, a feature of one could be esporare cinquantina of meters, arresting itself of forehead to a hard sandstone cumulus that it obstructed the gallery.

In 1935, the representatives of the main groups coves and the authorities premises placed on the income one lapide, gone hour destroyed, to memory of the first exploration: “Faith and to dare supported Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli, Luigi orrigoni, Don Giacomo Pensotti, Don Luigi Tadini, than for first revealed the mysteries of this tenebrous speco. The population of Comerio placed, completing the begun work the year MCM”.

In same year, came placed to the depth of approximately 20 meters one statue of the Madonna, donated to the Comune of Comerio from the Orrigoni's wife, that taken the name of Madonnina of Abysses. The statue remained in the cavity until to the years eighty, when, as a result of the degradation which had to the humidity and to the water constant stillicidio, it came brought back in surface from some volunteers. Completely restored, it has been placed in one niche in the Great Hall in occasion of the reopening of 2004.

After the war period resumes the traditional Festivity of Vacationing to Ferragosto and great affluence of tourists are recorded, beyond 200 in two days. In 1949 one shipment, organized from the Group Varese Coves, come down in the voragine, but an incident that it put out of service the rubber boat prevented prosecuzione of the exploration beyond the lago.

In December 1951 - January 1953 one shipment, always organized from the Group Varese Coves, it exceeded Lago Bertarelli and exceeded the landslide that had arrested the exploration of 1934 penetrating in one gallery covered from a very small river and that it ends in a small lake to quota -210 meters from the income that taken to the Small lake name Binda. In it you open them of 1953, a clergyman, Don Giorgio Colombo, celebrated the S. Messa on the rivers of Lago Bertarelli. It is this the deepest Putting of Italy and one of the celebrations to greater depth of the world. In 1985 sub a speleo Swiss, Johann Jacques Bolanz, dipped in the Small lake Binda in order very 42 meters: the argillaceous bottom it sanctioned the end of the development of coppers south of the Cove.

On to end of the Seventy years the CAI of Varese discovered, after sink 30, a cengia that it allows to catch up of i masses embed to you between the walls and that it represents the beginning of an immense field of the Cove: the Branch North, one gallery always high various tens of meters and with the constituted pavement from masses, some of which catch up the hundred of meters cubes. To sides of the main gallery they are opened various various coppers and know them, most famous of which are it knows it of Stalactites, with the only concretions of the Branch North and to the term of the gallery, Knows it Mitzi to it, from the dimensions so remarkable that its time gets lost in the dusk more total.