Cassataro cave
n the Picone area, behind the river Simeto, is the grotto (covered) where there are a few carvings made by prehistoric Sicilians (5000 BC?). They are pictures in red ochre, among them: a human female figure as tall as roughly 20 cm with large arms and a short skirt, others, very stylized, with the arms up and clasped, a net (trap) with animals, a lizard … The covered area also contains some semicircle holes of who knows what caveman use.
How things change! Centuripe, today resting on a knoll, almost forgotten by the frenzy of modern society, was at one time one of the most important Sicilian cities, certainly in the Siceliota epoch...
Centuripe è stata una delle grandissime regine della Sicilia antica, greca e soprattutto romana.
Il museo, per conseguenza, è bellissimo con tutto che le depredazioni clandestine,...
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