derelict kill growing turned 18 of these caves into a luxury hotel called 6 they grow up to dinner civita. breakfast is served in a former cave church which dates from the 13th century. approaches the retaining it was extremely important to us everything should remain just as it was only when for example the floor was missing did we renovated using original materials my theory i didn't get it. the only light comes in through the doors and small windows blown ceilings and floors are carved out of the soft sandstone and volcanic. a few pieces of furniture belong to former residents the only compromise is the designer bath tub in every room. doing all the sanitary facilities are our greatest sin as there was no running water in the caves until the 1950 s. or. but in a hotel you need water and bathrooms. wherever possible we've installed old original feeding trough that were lying around in the caves. due to overcrowding and an outbreak of malaria materials cave dwelling as were evacuated in the 1950 s. for a long time they remained abandoned and forgotten. but all that changed in 1993 when u