What’s more romantic than a candle-lit dinner at the seaside? A candle-lit dinner in a grotto restaurant carved into the Italian seaside. Grotta Palazzese hotel restaurant is set in a vaulted limestone cave in the town of Polignano a Mare in Southern Italy. You’re not only dining in a cave – you can also soak in the sights of the Adriatic sea and the vertical cliffs typical of the seaside.
The location had been inhabited since the Neolithic and was once a Greek colony. The restaurant itself might have been in use since the 1700s when local nobility gathered there to do the same we’d like to do today. They could afford it, too!
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