I discovered It in the middle eighties

We arrive at a very clear point where the rock was carved by the waves. Here the ogival entrance of the small jewel I called "Grotta del Presepe". After some meters we reach a marvel of nature: the curved columns. Their inclination testifies ancient movements of the earth crust. We slowly surface in the first subaerial room, close to the columns that continue till the roof Cannulae, stalactites, draperìes, hellctites hang from the ceiling very dose to our heads. We dive again through a nar­row passage where shrimps of genus Palaemon and Stenopus live. In the main room we take off the regulator because there Is an air passage. When I first entered this room. I had a concentrated beam flash light; not completely illuminated stalagmites reminded me the Nativity statuettes, this is the reason for the CRIB name. Small swimming pools, particular niches and cave formations like the "beehlve" live astonis­hed.