Villaggio Mangiapane, Custonaci, Sicily, 2017 306

            Mangiapane Cave (known also in Italian as Grotta Mangiapane) is a cave that has been occupied on and off since prehistoric times. In addition to being a prehistoric site, Mangiapane Cave is also well-known for being the location of a village that is reported to have been left untouched for the last 70 years. It is perhaps this aspect of the small village in Mangiapane Cave (i.e. being trapped in a time capsule) that draws people to visit this otherwise obscure site in Italy.
Mangiapane Cave is located in the western part of the Italian island of Sicily. This cave is situated in the commune of Custonaci in the province of Trapani. In Custonaci there are a group of nine caves known as the Scurati Caves, where evidence of Sicily’s prehistoric inhabitants has been discovered.
Mangiapane Cave is the largest in this group of caves. The opening of the cave is measured to be around 80 m (242 ft.) in height, whilst the time-locked village is found to extend about 70 m (229 ft.) into the cave.
It seems that Mangiapane Cave was not even occupied following the prehistoric period. It was only relatively recently, i.e. during the early 1800s that Mangiapane Cave was once again settled by people.
It was the Mangiapane family who settled in this cave in more modern times, thus lending their name to this geographical feature. (As an aside, the word ‘mangiapane’ may be translated from Italian to English as ‘eat bread’.) A village was built by the Mangiapane family in this cave, and they lived in there for about 150 years, or until the middle of the 20th century. After this time, the village seems to have been abandoned yet again.
Whilst people ceased to inhabit the village in Mangiapane Cave, the settlement was neither entirely forgotten, nor left to the decaying effects of time. Fortunately for the site, a group of passionate local volunteers consulted with the surviving members of the Mangiapane family, and managed to preserve this site as it was. At the mouth of the cave, the piazza (public square) of the village can be found and further inside are the village houses, just as they were when left in the 1950s.
   

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Taken on: April 17, 2017

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