It is undoubtedly one of the underground miracles of the planet, and the impressive performances, which have been crafting for the sake of geological procedures over the last million years, leave most of its visitors open, Greeks and foreigners. In fact, their surprise becomes even greater when they find that their browsing in her cave Alistratistarts with Robot Persephone, the only one that is located on the outskirts of the earth and speaks 33 languages, including ancient Greek and Pontian.
The drop of the drop until it becomes a stalactite or stalagmite is an exciting process full of patience, natural powers and invisible changes, and the geological processes that evolve last hundreds, even thousands of years, thereby providing humanity one of its most beautiful examples.
“Each stalactite and stalagmitis has its own story, reminiscent of people the power of time and physical process,” says the scientific director in the Cave of Alistrati, Professor (Economist) at the University of Western Macedonia.
“Each drop that falls to the ground inside the cave comes from the roof and because it has a thickness of 40 meters, travels for about 40 days until it finally touches the edge of stalactite and becomes part of it,” Mr Kartalis said, adding that “to create a stalagmite or stalagmite.”
Alistrati Cave and the treasures of
The Alistrati Cave, which is six kilometers from the homonymous town, is about three kilometers long, one kilometer of which is visited and the visitors’ tour lasts one hour. Inside the Alistrati cave, the temperature is always 18 degrees Celsius, which makes it cool during the summer months and warm in winter, while its rich decoration includes, in addition to large stalactites and stalagmites in various colors and rare colors and rare eccentrics or rare eccentrics. following irregular paths.
“The main feature of the cave-which makes it unique in the Greek area-is the very wide variety of eccentrics,” Mr Kartalis tells RES-EIA, adding that this is also characterized by the unique tiny organisms (3mm) found inside it, such as Alistratia Beroni.
The Cave of Alistrati, in which Nikos Kartalis entered his natural entrance in 1978, when he was only nine years old, was visited by June 21, 1998, and in the 27th anniversary, more than a million people, and by elementary and high school students from the US and Gymnasiums, (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, etc.).
“Nor could I ever imagine at that moment, at the age of nine, that the Cave of Alistrati would be my most careful and hi-tech child for me,” Mr Kartalis points out, adding that the idea for the installation of the Robot Persephone, It will make it available to make it the most digitized cave in the world.
Persephone and the five -step digital transformation steps to be completed
“Persephone”, which guides the visitors of the cave from the entrance to the first 100 meters inside, was entirely constructed (the software) at the Technology and Research Foundation (ITT) and has the ability to answer more than 30 predetermined questions. Its installation in the Alistrati Cave is one of the five digital transformation steps on it and was funded by the Interreg program and the distinctive I-Cave title.
However, the digital revolution within the cave includes the application of the QR in the cave, which enables visitors, through their mobile phone, to browse and receive information on geological formations, while they can hear the myth of Persephone and ancient Greek.
In addition, the capacity of the biospillary characteristics of the cave (bats, Alistrati Beroni) and the digital imaging of the cave’s mythological tenant, Persephone, is available.
As part of its digital transformation, the Alistrati Cave also includes the VR (Virtual Reality) feature, to visualize visitors to the cave corridors, to whom it is not possible to access, but also the digital depiction of its creation and educational robotics for students, with the ability to create a copy of a diligent. For the tour, copying the movements of the Robot-Guard.
The goal is – and is on the way, according to Mr. Kartalis – in the tunnel shortly before entering the cave to appear the hologram of the goddess of Georgia, Dimitra, mother of Persephone and Zeus, who will tell her daughter’s rapture by God, At the same time, he will foretell the visitors of the Cave of Alistrati, some of what he will reveal to them.
“With the development of all applications, the Cave of Alistrati, not only becomes an incubator of innovation and digital transformation, an example to imitate the caves of Greece and the world, while also achieving its viability and flourishing,” Mr Kartalis points out.
As for the train in the Angitis Gorge, which is actually moving with wheels in 2024 parked with the necessary infrastructure projects that was considered imperative to make the safety of visitors and is expected to light up its machine again in 2026. Rocks depicting scenes of human activity, as well as various animals of a distant era, about 2,500 years ago. He finishes again in the cave and visitors on the way can admire the flora and fauna, which is one of the rarest and if they are lucky they may meet – among other things – eagles, hawks, herons and ashtrays.