Fossil mine in Balestrate
The Crags of Balestrate are known as the Fossil Mine of Balestrate because they constitute a true open-air museum full of historical finds.
On the western beach of Balestrate there are visible to the naked eye shells and remains of all kinds that experts believe date back to the Pleistocene and precisely between 1.8 million and 781 thousand years ago.
Among the most striking discoveries that took place on the cliffs of Balestrate, the discovery of fifty teeth stands out shark fossils attributable to the cosmopolitan species Carcharodon carcharias, known since the Pliocene, now commonly known as white shark.
