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| Image: the original cliff face with hermits' caves. |
| Location: | Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano |
| Open: | All year daily [2007] |
| Fee: | free [2007] |
| Classification: |
 Karst cave.
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| Light: | electric. |
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| Last update: | $Date: 2008/07/01 20:25:40 $ |
| 490 | first apparition of Archangel Saint Michael. | |
| 08-MAY-492 | second apparition of Archangel Saint Michael. | |
| 493 | third apparition of Archangel Saint Michael. | |
| fourth apparition of Archangel Saint Michael. | ||
| ~1000 | Monte Sant'Angelo founded. | |
| 1273/74 | octagonal campanile built above the church. | |
| 1395 | entrance hall built. | |
| 24. Mai 1987 | visited by Pope Johannes Paul II. |
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| Image: the main cave church. |
Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano is the name of a village, located at the southern coast of the Gargano peninsula, built on top of a mountain ridge which runs east to west. To the south there is a beautiful view to the sea 400m below, to the north is a steep cliff going down to a pleasant valley with some agriculture, and the National Park Foresta Umbra on the other side, a remains of the natural forest of Italy with typical mediterranean vegetation. This pleasant spot was never a good place to settle, because of the steep cliffs all around, but it was used by sheperds to graze their sheep or goats. Natural caves in the northern cliff face were used as shelter. The biggest of the caves was used as a
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