{"id":2955,"date":"2021-10-11T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/uncategorized\/cala-mancina-caves\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:50:55","slug":"cala-mancina-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/uncategorized\/cala-mancina-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cala Mancina Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The western side of the promontory of San Vito lo Capo keeps, in a suggestive naturalistic context, a complex of caves of prehistoric interest such as <strong>Grotta Perciata<\/strong>, <strong>Racchio<\/strong>, <strong>Isulidda<\/strong>, <strong>Cala Mancina<\/strong>, <strong>Ciaravelli<\/strong> and <strong>Cavalli<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The latter, inhabited in the Upper Paleolithic, consists of a large cavern where, almost at the bottom, there is one of most important examples of rock art in Sicily, a <strong>pictorial cycle dating back to the beginning of the Aeneolithic period<\/strong> (in the middle of the third millennium B.C. \u2013 facies of San Cono-Piano Notaro) with three main groups of figures: a group with abstract subjects and linear or sinuous shapes; another group with itiphallic and threadlike anthropomorphic figures; a third group with symbolic-descriptive figures and winding figures, ellipsoidal in shape, with parallel and concentric lines, comparable to that discovered in the cave of Contrada Emiliana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The western side of the promontory of San Vito lo Capo keeps, in a suggestive naturalistic context, a complex of caves of prehistoric interest such as Grotta Perciata, Racchio, Isulidda, Cala Mancina, Ciaravelli and Cavalli. The latter, inhabited in the Upper Paleolithic, consists of a large cavern where, almost at the bottom, there is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-san-vito-lo-capo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}