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Tűzköves-hegyi-barlang
Cave

Tűzköves-hegyi-barlang

Tűzköves-hegyi-barlang is one of Hungary’s caves formally under heightened protection since 2005, and it lies in the Bakony Mountains within the Balaton-felvidéki Nemzeti Park. You reach its entrances from the direction of Szentgál’s railway station—roughly 630 metres to the north-west—where they open at the foot of the rock face in a now inactive quarry on Tűzköves Hill. The cave formed in Lower Jurassic–Lias tűzköves limestone, and it has two entrances, both closed with a barred gate. What gives this place its significance is its role for bats: it is among the four most populated bat roosts in the Bakony, and hibernation takes place for 14 protected and strictly protected bat species. …

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