Estonian Destinations: Piusa Caves

VINCENT TEETSOV

The way we encounter animals is often very arranged. Encounters with animals in the wild are scarce. But in the case of Piusa Caves Nature Reserve, in Põlva County, southern Estonia, humans came by and made use of the land, animals came in, and both have stayed somewhat close to each other since.

The caves in Piusa are the product of mining for quartz sand, by hand, to use in the making of glass. Miners started work in 1922 and cut out sections decisively, with pillars and passageways that would have allowed them to get what they needed carefully and expediently.

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