Museum
Specchia Silva Insediamento Rupestre
2 locals recommend,
Permanently closed
Tips from locals
Danila
September 2, 2020
A large artificial mound of stones and earth with which the local people could control the surrounding territory. And in difficult times, it made a difference. Scholars are divided on two interpretations. The first says that we are facing prehistoric buildings, the other places them in the Middle Ages. Cosimo De Giorgi describes Specchia Silva during the 1800s over 20 meters high, with 35 meters in diameter, but it was probably higher, and in the centuries after its abandonment its stones were reused by farmers for dry stone walls
A large artificial mound of stones and earth with which the local people could control the surrounding territory. And in difficult times, it made a difference. Scholars are divided on two interpretations. The first says that we are facing prehistoric buildings, the other places them in the Middle Ag…
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Ruffano, Apulia