Info:
Altitude: 290 m a.s.l -- Population: ca. 18,000 inhabitants
-- Zip/postal code: 70013 -- Phone Area Code: 080
-- Patron Saint: Maria Santissima della Vetrana, San Leone Magno
What to see:
The Franciscan Convent, with the attached church of Madonna della Vetrana, who according to the tradition saved the town from the plague in 1691. In the convent there is also a very ancient artistic crib.
The celebrated Castellana Grottos, discovered speleologist Franco Anelli in 1938, a route winding between calcareus concretion of rare beauty. From the entrance grotto, the "Grave" there are underground passages and corridors - the Black Grotto, the Angel's Corridor, the Little Cavern of the Manger, the Cavern of the Precipice, and finally maybe the most beautiful grotto in the world, for the purity of its crystalline concretions and alabasher, the splendid White Grotto, at 70 m. below ground-level, from which a lift service leads back to the surface.
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