Monte Pucci |
Features are the tombs Terragni, produced at the foot of the columns in which the corpse was laid together with oil lamps, which are not yet clear is the symbolic value. You can also support the hypothesis that the various hypogea were enlightened by the light of such lamps placed in the grooves of the natural walls. For a long time it was incorrectly thought that these caves were inhabited by monks Anchorites from eastern countries. Recently, however, studies conducted by the Institute of Anthropology of Padua showed that the bones found there belonged to women and children. Therefore it must be assumed that in the plain of Calenella, there were permanent settlements, then buried in response to repeated flooding. |