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Some of the scenic formations of stalactites and stalagmites have names like Old Banyan Tree Welcoming Guests and Dragon Splashing Water, providing an idea of the poetic license enjoyed by Chinese cave explorers.
To the modern eye, they form a Renaissance and Baroque theme park dotted with loggias, cool fountains, grottoes with artificial stalactites, and myriad statues of gods, nymphs, and grotesques (derived from the word “grotto”).
In 1855 an Englishman discovered the caves, which, being a lava bed, do not have icy limestone stalagmites and stalactites but “lava drops” that look like thick whirls of chocolate mousse.
Take a trip to nearby Conca dei Marini to visit the stalactites of the Grotta di Smeraldo or Emerald Grotto, where the waters are as brilliantly emerald green as those of Capri’s Grotta Azzurra are blue, believed by many to be even more beautiful.
Take a guided tour of the translucent stalactites reaching down to fuse with stalagmites in glowing columns of red, green, and pink.