Rock settlement of the Castle
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Rock settlement of the Castle 

This monument, which has the characteristics of a fortified place and aroused great interest in European travelers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is located at the top of the rock face on the right, approx. 30 m., In an impregnable and isolated position. It is arranged on five superimposed floors, communicating by means of an internal tunnel with a circular section with handholds and pegs. The original entrance consists of a narrow, curved gallery with a barrel vault (length 8 m, height 1,70). It is an effective defense device from possible enemies. It gives access to a courtyard illuminated from the outside that develops along an elongated axis, around which the rooms, of rectangular or square shape, develop. The room near the entrance was probably used as a kitchen, because there is a place for the fire and the oven. The other rooms do not seem to have a precise destination: the doors and windows have recesses for wooden closures and along the walls there are small niches, notches for toggles, shelves, shelves, beds, shelves and partitions. At the end of the gallery, two small rooms with windows probably served as lookout towers. The upper floors, which have partially collapsed, had similar arrangements.

(Source: Melchiorre Trigilia: La Cava d'Ispica Archeology History and Guide)

Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero

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