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The Tajate — Historic Stone Quarries

Countryside around Acquarica del Capo

The sheer quarry faces and the direct link to Acquarica's built fabric

Acquarica's disused tufa quarries, known locally as the tajate, cut dramatic geometric voids into the countryside. They supplied the stone of the town's houses and palaces and now read as both an industrial landscape and an evocative open-air setting.

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