The Pertosa Caves su Around Naples Encyclopedia

Ormai la passione per il mondo sotterraneo ha definitivamente conquistato il nostro amico Jeff che, con dovizia di particolari, ha voluto dedicare una pagina della sua enciclopedia alle famosissime Grotte di Pertosa.

Il tutto è ovviamente in lingua inglese.

"The Pertosa Caves

The Pertosa Caves (Le grotte di Pertosa) are 100 km (60 miles) SE of Naples in the Campania region of Italy (shaded green on the map insert) in the province of Salerno. The caves (red dot) are 40 km inland on the north-eastern foothill of the large massif that hosts the Alburni Mounts. A short distance from the caves is the town of Pertosa, itself, located on the Tamagro river just off the E45 autostrada that runs from Salerno south to Calabria. If you are an ardent spelunker of wild caves where you can roam free, falling into holes and impaling yourself on stalactites (no, wait-they're the ones that fall on you from above!)-well, all of that, then maybe you should look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you have imagination and literature in your troglodyte soul and you want to see where Dante's Inferno really is, this is for you.

The Pertosa caves are what is called a karst (limestone) cave system and are..."

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