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The Caves of Sant'Angel


A breathtaking show of colors and shapes. The Caves of Sant'Angelo di Cassano All'Ionio, now accessible in all their beauty to tourists, are natural monuments created over millions of years that preserve important evidence of prehistoric man. A journey into the bowels of the earth absolutely to do.

It is an imposing complex made up of 16 karst cavities that extends into the bowels of the earth for a few kilometers offering a breathtaking spectacle of colors and shapes.


The Caves at 250 million years old. In addition to the natural monuments, created drop by drop over millions of years, of stalactites and stalagmites, trays and flows, the Caves of Sant'Angelo also have great historical and scientific importance.

For a long time they were the safe abode of prehistoric man who left, as a tangible sign of his permanence in those writings, the oldest form of documented by experts, as unique and particular, of Italian Prehistory.

In short, we are facing a large natural laboratory of archaeological and geological research.


 



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