St. Beatus-Höhlen, Swiss Caves
Limestone show cave with an underground river, hermit legend and former pilgrimage site above a lake.
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This guide to the St. Beatus Caves above Lake Thun, near Interlaken, follows the hermit said to have lived in this cliff and the dragon he is said to have driven out of it. It weighs a legend against the friar who wrote it down in fifteen eleven, and follows the pilgrims who climbed here through the Middle Ages, plague years included, and the Bern councillors who sent them. Best heard at the foot of the cliff, where the cave river spills out of the rock.
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