Positano / Grotto

The Word "Grotto" comes from the word "Grotesque" which normally means ugly or unbearable to look at.
In Italy Grotto means underground caves or catacombs.

Today we visited a grotto that could not have been further from "grotesque"
........Il Grotta dello Smeraldo, translated means "the emerald grotto".

It is on the coast of Amalfi.

It wasn't called the emerald grotto just because it was a good name, but for the fact that sunlight reflects an emerald colour in the grotto.
The sunlight enters a tunnel under water 13 metres outside the grotto and travels through the tunnel to the inside of the grotto.

There are stalactites and stalagmites in the grotto, one of which is shaped like the leaning tower of Pisa.