Hotel Autostello Castellana Grotte - Hotels Bari Puglia

Location: Downtown, Shopping centre, Near train station, Near airport, Near highway, Near the sea

Services: Bar, Restaurant, Parking, Pets allowed, Packed lunches

Bar service and above all a family restaurant.

Autostello hotel is located near the entrance to the Grotte di Castellana and is easily accessible from all directions (Bari, Brindisi, Taranto)
The phenomenon which is the karst caves is due to corrosion of the water exerted on a particular rock, the limestone, composed mainly of calcium carbonate. This rock is generated as a result of the phenomena of marine sediment determined by the slow accumulation of shells of shellfish, molluscs and calcareous algae.
Over time these funds marine suffered a slow work of cementing them turned into a rock solid and compact, then it is fractured into many axes, which for the Puglia took the trend favored the North West, South East. In these fractures creeps rainwater that penetrated into the subsoil where increasing the pre-existing cracks.
With the slow emergence of the continental shelf there was a lower level of water that flowed in the caves.
Leave the caves by the water attended a gigantic collapse of the vaults and the walls, once lapped by ancient rivers. In some cases, these collapses were so impressive that they reached the turn and caused the opening of large skylights, which placed the natural caves in communication with the outside world.

And 'this is the case of Grave, the original abyss of Castellana Caves, "a square window, cropped in the vault, which shines through a strip of blue sky, the sky limpio of Puglia."

Concretions and multiform magnificent stalactites and stalagmitiche, fruit of the admirable work constructively water desirable, are finally rich drapes