The Italian word grotte translates literally to "caves," signaling exactly what defines this Apulian town of roughly 19,300 residents. The Castellana karst caves — first descended by Franco Anelli in 1938, down to the dazzling White Grotto — anchor a limestone plateau appropriately named the Land of Trulli and Caves.
Beyond its underground network, Castellana Grotte maintains an unusual municipal layout within the Metropolitan City of Bari. The town’s borders are fragmented, containing two separate land pockets—one entirely inside neighboring Alberobello, and another wedged toward Monopoli.
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