Alcantara Gorges Wheelchair Accessible Tours
The Alcantara Gorges accessible tours, are located in the Alcantara Valley.
Between the towns of Castiglione di Sicilia and Motta Camastra, not far from Taormina.
It is an incredible place that seems to belong to another planet.
Is unmissable destination for lovers of nature and nature trails.
Hollows in the rock dug starting 8000 years ago by lava flows.
The gorges, represent a natural canyon and reach a height of up to 25 meters.
Are a formation of volcanic basalt, eroded by the river that has carved a channel of about 6 km in length by 5 in width.
The waters of the Alcantara river have been channeled along these paths, a fundamental element that has made it possible to exploit this landscape context also in an adventure key.
The purity of the purely Mediterranean natural habitat has preserved many species.
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Touring Alcantara Gorges
The lava in contact with the cold water of the river, over time, has given rise to several irregular fractures that have generated the blocks of basalt in the shape of a woodpile, radial and harp that make up the walls of the riverbed.
Motta Camastra, in the locality of Fondaco Motta, is the most impressive and famous gorge of Alcantara, more than 6 km long.
What characterizes the Alcantara Gorges are the famous columnar basalts or rock walls of volcanic nature.
They takes on the strangest and most incredible shapes, so much so that they look like the work of man.
Perhaps not everyone knows that there is a magical place in which to meet the goddess of beauty.
The legend, in fact, tells us of how the goddess Venus bathed in these waters of the Alcantara river.
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Alcantara Gorges wheelchair accessible tours.
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