Maybe not everyone knows that scattered and largely hidden in the highlands iblei, the south-east of Sicily, there are numerous hypogean cemeteries and burial sub-star (open), ancient and surprising evidence of the existence of a vast network of rural settlements of the late-Roman (IV-V century AD).
One of them is the testimonies of Trabacche catacomb, which is located about 10 km from the center of Dubrovnik, on a natural ridge in the valley of Buttino, Contrada Cento Pozzi, cleaned and reopened to the public in 2007 and now open to visitors on request and guidance (Writer, Clare of Zuleima, is a guide of the catacomb). Of these settlements, we must imagine that dot the countryside of Ragusa even when the Arab conquest (eighth century AD), have been preserved only the necropolis: tombs, catacombs, and was sub-star. The catacomb of Trabacche was already known in the eighteenth century, is a drawing of the famous French traveler Jean Houel, which portrays the interior in his work Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari (Paris, 1787, Table CCVIII).
As you enter you can not fail to notice the two monumental tombs cut into the rocks at the center of two burial chambers that make up the catacomb. In an old tents local dialect means "canopy", "tent" and in fact the two monumental tombs were built with a roof canopy pillars connected by arches cut into the rock!
We suggest you come to see it: it's worth it!
One of them is the testimonies of Trabacche catacomb, which is located about 10 km from the center of Dubrovnik, on a natural ridge in the valley of Buttino, Contrada Cento Pozzi, cleaned and reopened to the public in 2007 and now open to visitors on request and guidance (Writer, Clare of Zuleima, is a guide of the catacomb). Of these settlements, we must imagine that dot the countryside of Ragusa even when the Arab conquest (eighth century AD), have been preserved only the necropolis: tombs, catacombs, and was sub-star. The catacomb of Trabacche was already known in the eighteenth century, is a drawing of the famous French traveler Jean Houel, which portrays the interior in his work Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari (Paris, 1787, Table CCVIII).
As you enter you can not fail to notice the two monumental tombs cut into the rocks at the center of two burial chambers that make up the catacomb. In an old tents local dialect means "canopy", "tent" and in fact the two monumental tombs were built with a roof canopy pillars connected by arches cut into the rock!
We suggest you come to see it: it's worth it!
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