Gravina di Ginosa   6882
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Location: Ginosa      by: Giuseppe Marzulli
Area: Italy      Date: 2 September 2022
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.

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Looks like the Sassi di Matera, but the Gravina is much deeper there and not full of houses. I do not know a similar place. Cheers, Martin
2022/10/16 18:37 , Martin Kraus
To resolve, Martin's observation should be followed.
Tomorrow evening I will give the solution.
2022/10/18 20:08 , Giuseppe Marzulli
My first thought was quite identical as Martin's ... but it doesn't fit!! Now I think I might have found the solution - is it the G.a.i.a di G.no.a? Anyway, the panorama is a very nice documentation of this impressive location, even if the clouds on the left are a bit eroded in the backlight.

Have a good start into your new day! Cheers, Hans-Jörg

NB: If I'm wrong, then I resign and wait for the solution with pleasure ;-) ...
2022/10/19 06:48 , Hans-Jörg Bäuerle
Maybe J.B in "No time to die" was there, not sure - especially the scenes in the beginning where a bike and a car approached on a Roman two-level bridge .
2022/10/19 16:18 , Hans-Jürgen Bayer
Ok. All right. I think Martin had guessed the place, but he elegantly preferred to leave the solution to others.
I know the overview is not perfect, but I always privilege the documentary value.
2022/10/19 20:30 , Giuseppe Marzulli
Thanks for resolving this, Giuseppe - very interesting. I actually had not guessed this exact place. Cheers, Martin
2022/10/19 20:39 , Martin Kraus

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