Fig Grotto
A2.1 Cave known as “Ru peri i ficu” or “S. Lucia”
Karst cavity with a plan divided into tunnels, galleries and environments, characterized by extensive archaeological deposits ranging, with chronological continuity from prehistory to the Byzantine age
It is located just north of the Calafarina cave, near it.
Bibliographic sources:
B. Ragonese, In the darkness of Calafarina, Noto 1968, pp. 63 ff. L. Guzzardi, B. Basile The Capo Pachino in antiquity. Extract from “Magna Grecia and the sea. Maritime history studies, Taranto 1996, pp194-198.
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
(Source text of survey form n.391 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
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Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
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