Archaeological site of Cozzo Cisterna
Under the medieval village of Cozzo Cisterna there is a small mule track known as “Scala di San Teodoro”, which leads to the Hermitage of Croce Santa at the bottom of the Cava Lazzaro below. Numerous paleochristian arcosolium tombs (about sixty) have been located in this street, interspersed with what is presumed to be a rocky hermitage with an adjoining oratory most likely consecrated in the Byzantine era to “San Teodoro Martire”.
The Necropolis of Cozzo Cisterna, considered the most interesting of the Cava Lazzaro as regards the Christian tombs, is a real "open-air catacomb". It has numerous arcosolium tombs and also some cave columbaria with internal niches and canopied tombs ruined by time. The tombs are not found only in the walls overlooking the Cava Lazzaro, but also in the plateau, but they are terrestrial sepulchers with a rectangular pit.
In the adjacent small Cava di San Teodoro (small sinkhole of the Granati stream located north of the Lazzaro Cava) there are the remains of a Neolithic - Sicilian Necropolis.
Much of these ancient tombs became fortified sheepfolds and rock warehouses with internal cisterns for water, hence the name of "Cuozzu a'Sterna" or "Cozzo Cisterna".
Text source: http://sudestsicilia.altervista.org/rosolini-cavalazzaro-necropolicozzocisterna/
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