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CAVES IN TUNNELS - Entrance to the underground route
SMALL "GREAT CANYON"
KNOWLEDGE OF CALCARENITE and the birds that nest there
GREEN AND SHADED SPACES TO "FEEL" NATURE
CAVE HOUSE and large spaces for theatrical and musical events

MARSALA UNDERGROUND let's discover the hidden part of the city

By PARCO DELLE CAVE MARSALA
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Overview

You will get to know the hidden part of the city of Marsala; the one created by the quarrymen during the extraction phase.
It will be a city with a particular architecture, made up of limestone pinnacles that rise from the depths of the extraction and a succession of majestic walls and overhangs that make the landscape very similar to the Grand Canyon.
It will be a slow and relaxing walk that will take us from the countryside level to 30 metres of depth. The first stretch will allow us to get to know the various spontaneous aromatic plants that flood the route with colours and smells; we will observe the characteristics of the limestone rock that makes up and delimits the open-air quarries and we will talk about this current extraction system.
After a stop for refreshments, we will proceed into the quarries in tunnels which, due to their size, can be defined as extensive cathedrals of calcarenite with their 25 metre pillars and massive walls that alternative with the voids dug by the quarrymen.

Activity location

  • Parco delle Cave - Marsala
    • C.da Sant'Anna, 6/D
    • 91025, Marsala, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Parco delle Cave
    • 6/d Via Margi
    • 91025, Ciavolo, Sicilia, Italy

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTHE OWNER WILL BE YOUR GUIDE
  • What's includedWhat's includedA REFRESHMENT
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

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  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Those who need wheelchairs can access the central part of the park by car where they will receive the necessary explanations; it is impossible for them to make the last 15 minute stretch inside the caves due to the presence of a staircase.

Activity itinerary

Parco delle Cave - Marsala
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Visitors will join us on site and leave their car in the car park near the road because the route will be done on foot. They will be joined by the guide. The route is a ring circuit. You will travel through the open-air quarries and then the tunnel ones, finally returning to your cars. Refreshments will be offered at the halfway point. It will be a walk that from the road level will take us to -30 metres which corresponds to the maximum extraction carried out by the quarrymen. The quarry park is in fact created in quarries already worked by the previous owners who were in fact quarrymen. Now the Marsala Quarry Park is a private place, redeveloped by the current owners and transformed into their agricultural company which, due to its cultural value and scenic beauty, has become a tourist attraction. The Park tells the storey of the various extraction systems that have occurred over time, thus preserving traces of a profession that is disappearing.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESParco delle Cave - Marsala
    • C.da Sant'Anna, 6/D
    • 91025, Marsala, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEParco delle Cave
    • 6/d Via Margi
    • 91025, Ciavolo, Sicilia, Italy

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