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SOLVED RIDDLE.

Gravina di Ginosa is a place that even in Italy very few know. Yet it is a very suggestive place, perhaps the oldest Italian rock village.
The Gravina is a deep karst fissure, a small canyon that opens onto the plateau of the Taranto Murge and originated from the effect of the meteoric waters that slowly dug its path over the millennia. It is mainly composed of a type of sedimentary rock called calcarenite which has a very brittle consistency and therefore easy to excavate and manipulate.
The caves that can be seen and that are carved into the rock have been inhabited, according to some archaeological excavations, since the Middle Paleolithic (about 80.000 years ago).
The problem, however, is that they were inhabited until the mid-twentieth century.
It may seem incredible, but each of the holes dug in the rock that you see corresponded to a house. Living conditions were miserable. Men, women and children of a family lived in one of these caves, in promiscuity with animals.