Les coves turístiques de les illes Balears: antecedents i estat de la qüestió
Nowadays the Balearic archipelago hosts a total of 8 caves conditioned for tourist visits, 5 of them located in Mallorca whereas the other minor islands (Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera) have only one show cave in each case. Coves d’Artà (Capdepera) and Coves del Drac (Manacor), in Mallorca Island,...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repositorio: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | monografiesHistoriaNatural:MonografiesSHNB_2011vol017p333 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/monografiesHistoriaNatural/index/assoc/Monograf/iesSHNB_/2011vol0/17p333.dir/MonografiesSHNB_2011vol017p333.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/monografiesHistoriaNatural/document/MonografiesSHNB_2011vol017p333 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Caves Spain Balearic Islands Natural History |
| Resumo: | Nowadays the Balearic archipelago hosts a total of 8 caves conditioned for tourist visits, 5 of them located in Mallorca whereas the other minor islands (Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera) have only one show cave in each case. Coves d’Artà (Capdepera) and Coves del Drac (Manacor), in Mallorca Island, are the most outstanding caves in terms of beauty and magnificence. Both sites account for a long history of more or less organized visits, from the middle XIXth century till present times. Moreover, another 8 caves exist in the Balearics which have suffered some conditioning works, or even continued tourist visits, but are closed to public now. From the beginning of mass tourism to the Balearic Islands –in the first decades of XXth century– the visit to karst caves became a relevant part of the attractions that are offered to the tourists. Today, this facet of our geological heritage is fully integrated in the tourism tours, being registered figures as high as 1,500,000 annual visitors to the different show caves of the archipelago. It is worth to remark that all the show caves in the Balearic Islands are private properties, fact that decisively affects the kind of management in the tourist caves. This particularity also causes a noticeable lack of interest on environmental problems in the vast majority of the cave owners. On the other hand, and related to the same fact, the cultural or scientific programs linked to the tourist activity in Balearic caves are almost inexistent. |
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