Blue Grotto (Capri)
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The Blue Grotto is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy. Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving
Inside the Blue Grotto
Painting by Jakob Alt, 1835–36
A diagram of how daylight illuminates the cave through the underwater opening.
Capri
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Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. A resort destination since the time of the Roman R
Blue Grotto (Capri)
…The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy. Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue…
View from Massa Lubrense, Campania
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