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Inside the cave, supporting pillars were raised under the walls, and its main entrance was bricked up. Two remaining smaller openings were bricked up in 1830. The cave was reopened in 1842 and made accessible to the general public. In 1972, a fire-breathing statue of the Wawel Dragon by Bronisław Chromy was erected at the entrance to the cave.
Cuevas del Drach Martel -Pioneer of cave exploration. The Caves of Drach (modern Catalan spelling: Coves del Drac [ˈkɔβəz ðəl ˈdɾak]; Spanish: Cuevas del Drach; lit. ' Dragon caves ') are four great caves that are located in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, [1] extending to a depth of 25 m and reaching approximately 4 km in length. [1]
The church which serves Murvica is in the former hermitage in Dračeva luka. The vaulting in this church, which dates from the 16th century, is formed by the natural rock of the cave. [1] On the façade there is a characteristic portal and a rose window. A new, modern church was built in Murvica after the Second World War. Entrance to the cave
Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz) is a 542 m (1,778 ft) long cave with a 20 m (66 ft) wide and 12 m (39 ft) high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of 950 m (3,120 ft) above sea level. [1]
The cave slopes downward from the beach to the deepest point at about 40 to 45 degrees at the north end of the cave. The cave is wide and fairly straight, with the lake surface being visible from a large part of the flooded volume. [9] Water depth below the entrance is about 60 m. [3]
Therion is free and open-source cave surveying software designed to process survey data, generate maps and 3D models of caves, and archive [3] the data describing the cave and the history of exploration. Therion was developed by the Slovak cavers Martin Budaj and Stacho Mudrak [4] but is available in English.
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The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.