3504 x 2336 px | 29,7 x 19,8 cm | 11,7 x 7,8 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. Juni 2006
Ort:
Blue grotto, Capri, Campania, Mediterranean sea, Italy
Weitere Informationen:
The tourist is waiting for her boat ride in to the blue grotto. The site its the most famous landmark in the island of Capri. To visit the Blue Grotto, tourist must disembark from the tour boat and enter with one of the waiting rowboats, which are small enough to pass through the cave's mouth. The tour boats are find it at the harbor at the ”marina grande”. The grotto was known by the Romans, and apparently used by the Emperor Tiberius during the years when he retired to Capri. Roman sculptures of the appropriate period showing Neptune and tritons have been recovered from the cave and it is thought more might lie on the deep bottom.This discovery, the remains of an ancient landing place and the work on an underground tunnel, create an image of a natural cavern adorned by statues. The grotto was known to the locals under the name of Gradola, after the nearby landing place of Gradola, but it was avoided because it was said to be inhabited by witches and monsters. The Blue Grotto became a favoured tourist destination in the 1830s, after the visit of German writer August Kopisch and his friend Ernst Fries to the cave in 1826 and after the issuing of the book of Kopisch Entdeckung der blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri in 1838. They were guided to the cave by a local fisherman Angelo Ferraro and during their visit they noticed the presence of Roman structures in the cave. Since then the Blue Grotto has become the emblem of the island of Capri.
