State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic
Slovak Caves Administration
Link to the official UNESCO site for the property of Caves of Aggtelek and Slovak karst: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/725
The glamour and mystery of our Natural World Heritage can be admired only by visitors of show caves. From among the fifteen classically or touristically opened caves in Slovakia (except for the Bojnická Castle Cave which is a part of the castle tour) six caves are included in the World Natural Heritage (Dobšinská Ice Cave, Domica Cave, Gombasecká Cave, Jasovská Cave, Krásnohorská Cave and Ochtinská Aragonite Cave).
Other caves and abysses of the world heritage are not open to the public. Many of them are hardly accessible. Only experienced cavers and speleoalpinists with the help of roping technique or by demanding climbing or crawling can enter them. Some parts of cave with water siphons or flooded parts are accessible only by speleodivers.
Dobšinská Ice Cave is located in the Slovak Paradise in the Spiš-Gemer karst, which belongs among the most important karst territories in the central Europe.
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The subject of the Convention on Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by the member states of UNESCO in 1972, is determining of objects and territories that are unique and important from the world point of view and securing their protection, maintenance and presentation as invaluable and irreplaceable property not only of one nation but also of the whole mankind.
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