St Michael's Cave has attracted visitors to Gibraltar ever since the Romans. The Cathedral Cave was long believed to be bottomless, probably giving birth to the story that Gibraltar was linked to Africa by a subterranean passage over 15 miles (24 Km) long under the Straits of Gibraltar. The cave consists of an Upper Hall with 5 connecting passages and rocks between 40ft (12.2m) and 150ft (45.7m) to a smaller hall. Beyond this, a series of narrow halls leads to a further succession of chambers, reaching depths of some 250ft (62.5m) below the entrance.

There is an old legend that a soldier carrying a bugle and his dog decided to explore the cave in order to find the existence of an underground passage to Africa. The sound of the bugle could be heard fainter and fainter as the soldier entered deeper into the cave, until it was heard no more, some days later the barking of the dog was heard as it returned, but the soldier was never seen again. Though the existence of an underground passage to Africa is just a legend, there are still parts of the cave which, to this day, remain unexplored.

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