Xerri's Grotto (Q8043908)

  • matcher place: Malta (relation 365307)
  • view on Wikidata
  • Wikipedia: English
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • English Wikipedia categories: Air raid shelters, Caves of Malta, Limestone caves, Malta geography stubs, Xagħra
  • Overpass query: show query – Overpass Turbo 
    [timeout:300][out:json];
(
    node(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)[location=underground][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
    way(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)[location=underground][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
    rel(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)[location=underground][~"^(addr:housenumber|.*name.*)$"~".",i];
    node(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)["natural"="cave_entrance"][name];
    way(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)["natural"="cave_entrance"][name];
    rel(around:1000,36.05130,14.26140)["natural"="cave_entrance"][name];
);
out center tags;
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Xerri's Grotto is a cave in Xagħra, Gozo, Malta. It was discovered by local resident Anthony Xerri in 1923 or 1924 while digging a well under a private house. Xerri's Grotto is not far from another underground feature, Ninu's Cave, which was discovered in 1888 in a similar fashion, when a well was being dug under a private house.

Wikidata location: 36.0513, 14.2614 view on OSM or edit on OSM

matches

login to upload wikidata tags

no matches found

Search criteria from Wikidata

view with query.wikidata.org

cave (Q35509) natural=cave_entrance
subterranea (Q863404) location=underground

Search criteria from categories

Caves of Malta natural=cave_entrance
Limestone caves natural=cave_entrance