{"id":29904,"date":"2023-08-21T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/grotta-di-san-michele\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:44:37","slug":"grotta-di-san-michele","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/grotta-di-san-michele\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotta di San Michele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>San Michele Cave<\/strong> is of <strong>karstic<\/strong> origin, like the other caves in Ozieri: Mara, del Carmelo and Calamone.<\/p>\n<p>The San Michele Cave extends for around<strong> 160 m<\/strong> and is <strong>currently 56 m long<\/strong>. It has numerous rooms and tunnels and owes its name to the presence of a sanctuary which once stood nearby. In <strong>1914<\/strong>, when it was <strong>discovered<\/strong>, Taramelli sponsored an initial <strong>archaeological dig<\/strong>. Excavation work began again in 1949. Archaeologists found numerous artifacts belonging to a civilisation, dating to the Late Neolithic period (c. 3200-2800 B.C.), which took the name of <strong>Culture of San Michele (or Ozieri)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the cave was a burial place, a place of worship and even an air-raid shelter during the Second World War. The largest chamber in the cave was demolished in the 1950s to make way for a football pitch, later converted into a car park. Indeed, in order to access the site, you need to head to the car park at the Ozieri Public Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tipologia":[1039],"categoria":[1025,1022],"tematica":[1029,1031],"class_list":["post-29904","place","type-place","status-publish","hentry","tipologia-cave","categoria-archaeological-site","categoria-naturalistic-asset","tematica-archeology","tematica-nature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grotta di San Michele - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/grotta-di-san-michele\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grotta di San Michele - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The San Michele Cave is of karstic origin, like the other caves in Ozieri: Mara, del Carmelo and Calamone. 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