# St. Michael's Cave

- **Country:** Gibraltar
- **Coordinates:** 36.126199, -5.345504
- **Depth:** 62 m
- **Geology:** Limestone
- **Location:** Queen's Road, Upper Rock Nature Reserve, Gibraltar
- **Elevation:** 300 m
- **Other Name:** Old St. Michael's Cave
- **Photo Caption:** Uplit stalactites in St. Michael's Cave.
- **Entrance Count:** 3

St. Michael's Cave or Old St. Michael's Cave is a network of limestone caves located within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at a height of over above sea level. According to Alonso Hernández del Portillo, the first historian of Gibraltar, its name is derived from a similar grotto in Monte Gargano near the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo in Apulia, Italy, where the archangel Michael is said to have appeared.

![Photo of St. Michael's Cave](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/St_Michaels_cave2.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael's_Cave (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)