THE BLUE GROTTO By: Camila Castro

WHAT IS
IT?
Is a sea cave on the coast of the
island of Capri, southern Italy.
Sunlight passing through an
underwater cavity and shining
through the seawater creates a
blue reflection that iluminates
the cavern. The cave extends
some 50 metres into the cliff at
the surface. There is an eco and
the sonority in the natural
grotto.
WHY IS IT
BLUE?
Inside the grotto the sea looks
ilumineted under the water. It is
about a magnificent blue color,
which is name isn´t know. This is
the consecuence of another
aperture in the grotto, completely
submerged and situed in the lower
of the limestone rock .It lets the
light of the ilumine sun in the
water from the down part .The
quality and the nature of the color
is dermineted for the conditions of
the particular ilumination.
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LENGEND :
The grotto was popularized by the
polacan artist Kopisch because of
his avanced and great imagination
after that a local fisherman show
him the place in 1826. Before that
he had generated a turistic atraccion
,with visits inside the boat. Because
of that event the roman emperors
that were resting in the Capri island
started using the grotto as a private
bathroom.