San Martino Cave

Pleasant than 100 meters from the border that divides Palo del Colle from Toritto, after having traveled an ancient rural road that crosses the Mangiaquero district, in the rocky ridge that flanks the medium-low part of the blade that leads the torrential waters from the Murgia to the Adriatic Sea, find the door that leads to the large atrium of the Grotta di San Martino. Our ancestors used to call the cave, or rather the caves, with the name of the Grutt di Mangiaquair, but it is ascertained that the caves are located in the Torittese territory, even if the direction that the access passage to the caves and the subsequent path takes, is they move towards the territory of Palo. The cave of San Martino, of calcareous origin, opens on the low reliefs of the Murgia, at 287 meters above sea level and is a site linked to karst phenomena of considerable historical and archaeological importance.