Neptune’s Grotto - Jellen's Adventures

A precious treasure.

We have no certain news on who found out the Grotto. It was probably a fisherman of Alghero named Ferrandino, around the end of 1700. Other sources however claim that the Romans present in Portus Nymphaeus near Porto Conte, around the 1st century AD, ventured into this wonder of creation. Moreover, also in the nearby Green Grotto, archaeologists have discovered the remains of ancient civilizations, confirming this hypothesis.

It is certainly for everyone the Cavern, the Cave where Neptune or Poseidon, the God of the Sea, takes shelter. Also princes and princesses, kings, high-level personalities and Italian and foreign scholars, ardently desired to go inside. Charles Albert Prince of Carignano, who later became King of Sardinia, visited the Cave on three occasions, the first time accompanied by the great scholar of Sardinia Alberto La Marmora, the second one together with his firstborn son Vittorio Emanuele, the future King of Italy. A third time an English traveller of the 19th century, had the honour of visiting the Cave with him, giving us a written report in a work that became famous all over Europe. His name was John Warre Tyndale. In “The Island of Sardinia” (London 1849), he described not only the town of Alghero and its beauties, but also the whole of Sardinia, with a careful perspective taking uses and customs of the Sardinian people as well as various details and similarities with other cultures, as only a true traveller can do.

A lovely 40 minute boat ride on another glorious day.

We’re here

Jammed up at first, but easy to get some cool views as the tour detailed its history and magic. All the humans were told to not touch the walls, but we had to tell some people to stop touching because it really stops the growth of the cave and it’s beauty and stalagmites and stalactites.