Cala Mancina Caves

The western part of the San Vito Lo Capo promontory keeps, in an evocative natural setting, a complex of caves of prehistoric interest ranging from the Grotta Perciata to those of the Racchio and the Isulidda, to the caves of Cala Mancina, the Ciaravelli and the Horses.

The latter, inhabited during the Upper Palaeolithic, is a wide cavern in which, almost at the back, there is one of the most important manifestations of rock art in Sicily, a painted cycle dated to the early Eneolithic (mid-third millennium BC – San Cono-Piano Notaro facies) with three main groups of figures: one with abstract subjects and linear or sinuous forms; a second with ithyphallic and filiform anthropomorphic figures; a third relating to symbolic-descriptive figures with ellipsoidal meandering figures with parallel and concentric lines, similar to that found in the cave of Contrada Emiliana.