Città delle Grotte
Città delle Grotte in Abruzzo
4 towns
Abruzzo has 4 Città delle Grotte communes in our index. They are in the L'Aquila and Chieti provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Lama dei Peligni, Sante Marie, and Cappadocia. 1 more town carries the mark alongside them.
The towns
Lama dei Peligni
Province: Chieti · 669 m
A 669-meter Majella village known for chamois, the Cavallone cave, and a prehistoric burial dug from Fonterossi dated 7000 to 5000 BC.
Sante Marie
Province: L'Aquila · 950 m
A 950-meter Marsica village and the trailhead of the Cammino dei Briganti, the seven-day brigand trail through the Cartore band's territory.
Cappadocia
Province: L'Aquila · 1,102 m
A 576-resident Marsican borgo at 1,102m in Abruzzo's western mountains, where the river Liri rises, with a name many mistake for the wrong country.
Carsoli
Province: L'Aquila · 616 m
A 616-meter mountain town in the Marsica, built next to the ruins of a 4th-century BC Roman fortress town.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Roscigno
Province: Salerno
A Cilento ghost town at 570 meters, emptied by a 1902 landslide and known as the Pompeii of the twentieth century.
Minturno
Province: Latina
A coastal comune at the mouth of the Garigliano, built on the Roman colony of Minturnae.
Castelnuovo Magra
Province: La Spezia
A ridge village on the Liguria-Tuscany border where a marquisate treaty ended decades of conflict with the bishops of Luni.
Frisanco
Province: Pordenone
A 588-resident commune in the Val Colvera whose frazione Poffabro, at 525 meters, became a model of Prealpine stone-and-wood vernacular architecture.
Erice
Province: Trapani
An Elymian mountaintop city at 751 meters above Trapani, with a Norman castle on the site of the temple of Venus Erycina and a Cold War physics center.