Zungri Caves – the Sbariati Rock Settlement
Carved into the sandstone, the Sbariati “stone city”: over a hundred caves inhabited between the 9th and 13th centuries, just minutes from Tropea in the hinterland of the Costa degli Dei.
Zungri
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Description
The Sbariati Rock Settlement is one of the most fascinating and mysterious places in Calabria. Along a sandstone ridge open more than a hundred hand-carved caves, grouped into about ten clusters: not simple shelters but real dwellings used by the communities that lived here between the 9th and 13th centuries, together with spaces for animals and for producing wine, lime and grain. Next to the settlement, the Museum of rock and rural civilisation gathers thousands of objects from everyday life of the past. An experience that tells the story of the oldest Calabria, just minutes from Tropea. Photo: Mboesch – Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What makes this experience special
- Over 100 caves carved into the rock
- Settlement inhabited between the 9th and 13th centuries
Where to find it
Via Indipendenza
Zungri
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