B&B Palazzo Mascambruno Cariati (CS) - Residenza d'Epoca - Luxury

Distant 70 km north east of Cariati: Near Cerchiara at over 1100 meters above sea level rises the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Armi. All in One with the steep rocky ridge that supports it, you embrace the view of the entire plain of Sibari. Built from 1440, it was born on the ruins of a more 'ancient Basilian sanctuary of the twelfth century and its church was set in a cave .where an icon of the Virgin is kept after which it is named engraved on  dark stone, a wooden organ, various paintings of the eighteenth century, and a magnificent altar decorated with polychrome marbles, perhaps done by a Florence artist in 1700. Once on site it is recommended to visit the caves. one of the most interesting caving areas of the national  Pollino  park. At short distance from the village is  the abyss of Bifurto, the eighteenth most deepest cave  of Italy with its 683 m.