Caves of Pertosa-Auletta, Campania

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This place is unlike any other in all of Italy. I don't usually write from the first person experience of places as the owner of the company, although I generally write all of the other descriptions, I needed to write this one from my heart and soul as I entered these caves in 2005.

This is a magical place, one that you truly need to come and discover, simply to honor the power of mother nature.

Who else could have designed such an incredible scenario?

According to recent studies, the formation of these caves, (which run 2.5 miles underground) dates back t0 about thirty-five-million years ago. A wealth of finds provide evidence that the caves were already inhabited in the Stone Age.

The Greeks and Romans used them as places of worship and in the Christian era they were finally dedicated teh Archangel Michael.

The Agnel's Caves wind through the mountains for some 2,500 meters froming long underground passages, imposing grottoes of astonishing dimensions filled with impressive stalagmites and stalacites. They are quite unique in Italy aslo because of the fact that in order to visit them visitors have to cross a lake fed by an underground affluent. This is traversable by boat.

As the boat is skillfully steered across this underground lake and penetrates the entrails of the earth for a few hundred meters, the strange silence of this underground oasis, is broken only by the sound of the oars pounding at the water. The crossing only takes a few minutes and upon landing the visitor is already spellbound, by the fact that here, they are met by an impressive underground waterfall, formed by the nearby Negro river.

From the waterfall, the visitor walks through narrow underground passages and corridors with arabesue decorations lit by a masterful play of lights. Huge halls of stalagmites and slatacite, give way to smaller streams and ever-larger cave galleries.

On your visit to Campania, visiting the Angel's Caves at Pertosa is a must!

by Jesse Andrews, October 6th, 2005

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