Monte Catalfaro
Monte Catalfaro
The “rock mouse” (Monte Catalfaro in Arabic) is a beautiful rocky plateau with the plain of Catania below. Full of orange groves now, the plain were once crossed by a lush...
Caratabia caves
Caratabia caves
37°15'20.14"N 14°43'11.80"E
There are two rock-cut grottoes in which one can see magnificent graffiti.
The grotto on the left consists of two rooms. In the first, the bigger one (7.50 m x 4.2 m), there are carvings of nineteen horses, a few with horsemen, arranged in groups, one or two tiers on top of one another.
On the back wall stands the figure of one lone horse, a dog chasing a boar and a group of four horses, two with mounted horsemen, and all preceded by a human figure on foot holding a shield.
The presence of three concentric circles is also curious.
The next room has been used as a funeral chamber
The grotto on the right is smaller (6.7 x 4.25m), and has a well on the right wall and a couple of deer as graffiti.
And who is responsible for this graffiti? A Siculo (indiginous population) of 2500 years ago.
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