A complex of caves and rock shelters on the cliff between the Ciolo and Porto Vecchio, one of the Capo di Leuca’s key Upper Palaeolithic landscapes.
Gagliano del Capo municipality confirms a roughly 2.5 km main trail, free access, and a steeper branch down to the caves that is unsuitable for people with mobility difficulties.
The Cipolliane caves lie in Gagliano del Capo territory between the Ciolo and Porto Vecchio at Novaglie.
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The municipality gives about 2.5 km and just under one hour for the main trail.
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The municipal page refers to three natural caves, while study sources distinguish additional shelters and chambers.
It depends on how shelters, recesses and overlapping chambers are counted.
The site preserves stone industries, animal remains and evidence of prehistoric use.
Local studies document layers from the Gravettian to the final Romanellian.
An engraved pebble of uncertain interpretation was found in the Cipolliane deposit.
Finds from the site are linked to the palaeontological and prehistoric collections in Maglie.
The dedicated cave trail descends the cliff on steep ground with a wooden handrail.
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The municipality states this explicitly.
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The upper caves sit high on the cliff.
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The main trail can be enjoyable with children who are used to walking.
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Scarpe da trekking, acqua, cappello e protezione solare.
Do not collect fossils, shells, flint or stones from the deposit.
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A rocky bathing stretch at Marina di Novaglie beside the old harbour and watchtower remains.
Novaglie’s small tourist harbour, cut into the rocky coast and connected to Via Amerigo Vespucci by the Park’s Sentiero del Porto.
An overview of the cave system around Marina di Novaglie, separating the marina’s sea caves from the Cipolliane rock shelters in Gagliano del Capo.
The remains of the watchtower that once guarded Marina di Novaglie’s harbour, now reduced to a pile of stones on the coast.
A small coastal cave in the Porto Vecchio area of Novaglie, with a grassy ledge above its main chamber and links to the Cipolliane trail system.
One of the cavities in the Cipolliane complex on the cliff between Marina di Novaglie and the Ciolo, valued mainly for its archaeological and Palaeolithic context.
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Marina di Novaglie lies between the Ciolo and the Corsano coast.
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