The Little Church of Piedigrotta
Moving about two kilometers from the historic center of Pizzo, heading directly down toward the beach, you come across the Church of Piedigrotta, one of Italy's most photographed wonders. This area, which remained completely uninhabited until the early 1900s, was once frequented exclusively by stonecutters who extracted rock blocks to be used as building material. The church is often improperly described as a cave carved into tuff; in reality, from a geological standpoint, it is not tuffaceous rock (since tuff is a volcanic rock), but rather a sedimentary rock, specifically calcitic tufa or sedimentary stone.
