Barbarossa Cave

Thuringia · Germany

Barbarossa Cave, Germany
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A rare anhydrite cave in the Kyffhäuser hills, famed for underground lakes and shimmering gypsum walls. Legend links it to the sleeping emperor Frederick Barbarossa said to rest beneath the mountain.

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