<< Our Photo Pages >> Caltabellotta - Ancient Temple in Italy in Sicily (Sicilia)
Submitted by ivanjohnson on Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Page Views: 10665
Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: CaltabellottaCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 6.677 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Palermo Nearest Village: Caltabellotta
Latitude: 37.579118N Longitude: 13.215302E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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To the west of the San Pellegrino church in a cow pasture is a very interesting site that the locals call "The Temple of Daedalus".
I have written more about an other site in this town on another page.
There are Sican caves all over the area and numerous other pre-Roman looking structures. From an adjacent hilltop it looked like there was possibly another altar at the summit of the pinnacle rock which is surrounded by the San Pelligrino monastery/fortress but I wasn't able to get to it because the monastery/fortress was locked up and it totally controls access to that summit. Tunneling under that monastery is the Cave of the Dragon (Grotte del Drago?)- a large long cave where Saint Pelligrino "defeated the serpent". The cave has a life-size medieval fresco on its wall of Mary Magdelane sucking the blood from the wound on Christ's abdomen. So they defeated the 'serpent' but then they're fine with drinking fresh blood from the wound. Old habits die hard. What a town. Anyone who knows anything at all about these structures is encouraged to contact me at:
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Ivan Johnson
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