By car: from the A26 exit at Gravellona and continue to Omegna. From here take the Valle Strona road, going through the villages of Strona and Piana di Fornero. At Marmo go left until you arrive at the hamlet of Sambughetto.
By train: the nearest railway station is Cossato, 7 km away.

Some of the most interesting caves in the Strona Valley are found near the hamlet of Sambughetto, including the so-called “Witches’ Cave”. This white marble cave is a favourite with cavers and has inspired many folk legends; it branches into pools and passages with stalagmites of sand, limestone concretions and streams.

During the first scientific explorations in 1869, many animal fossils were found in the cave: wolves, deer, lions, leopards, jackals and most of all the notorious cave bear. The Witches’ Cave can easily be visited by non-experts, as long as they are accompanied by a caver.

A little farther up from the Witches’ Cave is the cave known as the “Complesso dell’Intaglio”, a sub-circular gallery complex where extremely rich paleontological fossils have been found.

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