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[English version] (S.), derived from Latin spelunca, 'cave', is the modern name of a town on the Tyrrhenian coast, halfway between Rome and Naples. In Antiquity, this was probably the site of the Laconian colony of Amyclae. However, the location is better known for the fact that, 1.5 km south of the limestone outcrop on which the Greek settlement stood, a Roman villa on the beach incorporated into its territory the widely-visible grotto, which opens in the slope of the limestone escarpment of Monte Ci…