Íspica Attractions
Topography
This little farming town, situated on a white limestone bastion, was founded after the earthquake of 1693. Until 1935 it was known as Spaccaforno.
There are some Baroque churches, including the Chiesa Madre (around 1750), dedicated to St Bartholomew, which has a dominating position in the Piazza. Another side of the tree-lined rectangular square with its war memorial is bordered by the Palazzo Comm. Antonini Bruno (1910).
This little farming town, situated on a white limestone bastion, was founded after the earthquake of 1693. Until 1935 it was known as Spaccaforno.
There are some Baroque churches, including the Chiesa Madre (around 1750), dedicated to St Bartholomew, which has a dominating position in the Piazza. Another side of the tree-lined rectangular square with its war memorial is bordered by the Palazzo Comm. Antonini Bruno (1910).
Cava d'Íspica
To the northwest of Íspica is the 13km/8mi long heavily-indented romantic cave, the Cava d'Iàspica, in the walls of which countless caves have been burrowed out - in many cases with several storys on top of one another. Already partly established in the Stone Age, the caves were later turned into graves by the Sikels; in the early-Christian period they were used as catacombs, in the Middle Ages as cave-dwellings.
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