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Painting by Jakob Alt, 1835–36. The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy.Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern.
The Blue Grotto is a popular destination for tourists to Malta with boat trips visiting the caves running all days of the year, weather permitting. Scuba diving on the nearby scuttled wreck Um El Faroud, and snorkelling along the coastline, together with rock climbing, are the most popular activities practised here.
The Blue Grotto or Blue Cave (Croatian: Modra špilja), is a flooded sea cave located in a small bay called Balun (Ball in the local dialect), on the east side of the island of Biševo and about 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km) from Komiža, in the Croatian Adriatic. It is situated in the central Dalmatian archipelago, 5 km south-west of the island ...
Capri has twelve churches, seven museums and several monuments. The most visited attraction in Capri is the Grotta Azzurra ('Blue Grotto'), a cave discovered in the 19th century by foreign tourists. On one side of the grotto are the remains of ancient Roman rock, with a narrow cavern. [22] As of 2018 there were plans to limit access to day ...
Blue Grotto (Capri), a cave on the Italian island of Capri; Blue Cave (Kastellorizo), a cave on the Greek Island of Megisti (Kastelorizo) Blue Grotto (Malta), a cave in Malta; Blue Grotto, an area under the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge; Grotta dello Smeraldo, a cave at the Amalfi Coast in Italy; Blue Grotto, a dive resort in Williston ...
There are a number of notable sea caves including the so-called Blue Grotto which is much larger than its namesake in Capri. Exploration undertaken in 2006 by members of the SELAS Caving club of Greece has revealed vertical caves in many parts of the island. The deepest found so far was surveyed to a depth of 60 metres (200 ft) in March 2006 ...
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Blue Cave (Greek: Γαλάζια Σπηλιά) is the most celebrated attraction of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. [1] The cave lies on the southeast coast of the island, and is named by the inhabitants Phókiali (Φώκιαλη, Greek for seal's refuge ).