The Devil’s Saddle, like the entire Sant’Elia promontory, consists of sedimentary rocks of Miocene age, thus geologically quite young. Within this type of karst-forming rocks, several small caves have formed, which have been found to have been inhabited by humans since the 6th millennium BCE. On the summit plateau, near the highest point of the promontory (m 135 asl), there existed in the Punic period a place of worship dedicated to Astarte. <\/p>\n\n
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