Dozens of cave houses cut into the sandstone, with stairs, water channels and grain pits: this is the rock settlement of the Sbariati, lived in for centuries. You visit it on foot together with the small museum of rural life.
Zungri caves
A village carved into the rock, on the Poro plateau.
Photo: Mboesch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A tip from someone who lives here
«You are twenty minutes from Tropea: come here in the morning and go down to the sea in the afternoon.»
How you really get there
From the centre of Zungri a downhill path leads to the caves in ten minutes. There is an entrance fee.
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