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MurGeopark UNESCO Global Geopark
Celebrating Earth Heritage
Located in Italy's Murge Highlands, MurGEopark offers a remarkable glimpse into Earth's geological past. The region preserves a rare, stable portion of the Adriatic Plate, an ancient continental plate that sits between Africa and Europe, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces. The landscape is marked by sinkholes, caves and "lamas"–wide furrows formed by water erosion. Two exceptional paleontological discoveries include a preserved Neanderthal skeleton encased in speleothems – mineral deposits formed in caves over millennia – and one of the world’s largest dinosaur track sites, with approximately 25,000 footprints.