Novakuša Cave is one of the most impressive natural gems of the municipality of Nevesinje and has been declared a natural monument. Hidden at the bottom of a stone amphitheater with vertical cliffs up to one hundred…
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Novakuša Cave is one of the most impressive natural gems of the municipality of Nevesinje and has been declared a natural monument. Hidden at the bottom of a stone amphitheater with vertical cliffs up to one hundred meters high, it greets visitors right at the entrance: the opening, seventy meters wide and twenty meters high, ranks it among the caves with the largest entrances in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beyond this monumental threshold lies a huge chamber, from which vertical and horizontal passages branch out.
One of them leads to a smaller chamber where, according to legend, the hajduk Starina Novak hid during his outlaw days, and there is still a visible stone slab in it that tradition says was his bed. The cave is full of cave formations, and research is still in its early stages — speleologists estimate that the passages continue far into the depths. Novakuša is untouched, wild, and unforgettable.
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