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Natural PlacesSite Name: Grotta del Genovese Alternative Name: Cave of GenoveseCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 17.722 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Levanzo
Latitude: 38.001880N Longitude: 12.321930E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Torwen visited on 12th Jul 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 The grotta del Genovese is only accessible by reservation. You can get a boat trip or (depending on weather conditions) a trip with an off-road car. A small but steep footpath brings you to the entrance of the cave. The inner cave with the engravings and paintings is only accessible with the tour guide (costs 22.50 Euro per Person - July 2012).
Contact forms via http://www.grottadelgenovese.it/ENG/index.htm
The paintings date back to 5-6 thousand years ago, at the end of Neolithic, when Levanzo was already an island.
"Primitive human messages are carved in the Grotta del Genovese, a prehistoric sanctuary where religion and culture take their first steps between graffiti and rock paintings of men and animals, joined in an ancestral link."
More at the official website.
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