It is a summer that has surprised the one just ended for the Castellana Caves (Ba), which are confirmed among the main paid tourist attractions in Puglia, recording the presence of approximately 100 visitors from June 26, the date of reopening following the lockdown, to the end of September.
There were many tourists in the region who did not want to miss the opportunity to visit the karst site, to which were added those who participated in the Speleonight, exclusive visit that takes place partly in the dark which between scheduled appointments and extra requests was repeated 15 times from the end of July to September, and the spectators of Hell in the Cave, a show about Dante Alighieri's Inferno staged in the Grave cave, which has been performed 14 times since its summer debut on July 25th until its final performance on September 26th, always selling out.
Among the visitors over the three summer months were many journalists and influencers, who took the opportunity to share the beauty of the caves online and on social media. This visibility adds to the numerous television appearances the tourist site has had in recent months. After being featured in the August episode dedicated to Puglia on the Rai1 television program, Green Roots Line, and one of the locations chosen for the performances of the artists of Live beats 2020 broadcast on Telenorba and Italia 1, in fact, the Castellana Caves appeared again on TV on Rai1 with Alberto Angela in Northwest Passage Saturday 26 September and also on Sky Arte in the episode of Tuesday 29 September of You are a wonderful country, a program hosted by Dario Vergassola and Miriam Galanti that explores Italy in collaboration with Autostrade per l'Italia.
“We are very satisfied with the results of the summer quarter – said the president Victor Casulli, who together with the vice president Francesco Manghisi and to the councillor Maria Lacasella makes up the Board of Directors of the Castellana Caves srl It's clear that the summer data isn't comparable to previous years, but we can undoubtedly say we've recorded very respectable numbers considering the challenging historical period we're facing, which has seen us work tirelessly to reopen with maximum safety, developing a protocol that appears to have worked.
