Praia a Mare

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Praia is a town of recent formation. The area on which it rises was inhabited, however, since remote ages. The material found in the cave of the Madonna’s Sanctuary attests a continuity of the installation from the Superior Paleolith to the Villanova culture.
The interesting and abundant finds of lithic industry, the engraved ceramics, painted to red gangs with Apennine motives and many incisions, document that man has always lived in this area. The traditional Feast of the Madonna of the Cave, with manifestations and fairs, is from 13 to 18 August. In August there are cultural, sporting and folk initiatives. To visit the Cave of the Sanctuary, wonderful work due to the millennial erosion of the sea: 19 metres high with a surface of 2000 m². In the altar’s niche was guarded a wooden statue of the Madonna with the Child (XIV cent.). Some years ago the statue has been brought away by unknown thieves, and so has been substituted by the population with a copy. There is, moreover, a marmoreal statue of the Madonna of the Snow (XVI cent.) to ascribe to Giacomo Gagini or his school.