The Lazareva Pećina, which translates Lazar's Cave, is the longest explored cave in
Serbia
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.
Located in
Bor municipality, near
Zlot, the cave is also sometimes referred to as Zlotska Cave.
According to 2012's ''Recent Landform Evolution: The Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Region'', the cave is long.
The cave is situated near the entrance of the deep canyon carved into the mountains by the river
Zlotska.
The cave exhibits a long history of mining, with evidence of copper
metalwork
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
s in the cave dating back 5,000 years.
The cave has been popular for
tourism
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since at least the 19th century, when it was one of the three most popular
caving
Caving – also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology i ...
destinations in Serbia along with
Prekonoska and
Petnicka.
Some of the paths are luminated and tourist services offered for modern visitors. It has been
protected
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since 1949.
See also
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Lazar's Canyon
References
External links
''Beautiful Serbia''
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Bor, Serbia
Caves of Serbia