The Rosh HaNikra grottoes are a set of sea caves cut into a white chalk cliff on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, at the border with Lebanon in the Western Galilee. The roughly 200 meter network of interconnecting hollows was carved by the constant action of the sea against the soft chalk rock. Tunnels first cut through the cliff for a wartime railway were later reopened in 1968, and a cable car now carries visitors down from the clifftop to the grottoes.
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Rosh HaNikra or Hanikra (Hebrew: ראש הנקרה, lit. 'head of the cavern'; Arabic: رأس الناقورة, romanized: Rās an-Naqūrah) is a geologic formation in northwest Israel on the border with Lebanon, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Western Galilee.
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