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. |