The motto of this excursion is: "The Tancia as you've never seen it before". We will explore the mountainous saddle that straddles the Sabina and the Reatino, an area quite frequented by hikers
interposed between the highest peaks of the Sabine Mountains: Monte Tancia / Pizzuto and Monte Ode, the latest being a narrow mountainous buttress that divides this area from the Farfa and Corese Valleys. Usually this is the starting point to reach the peaks of the Sabine Mountains, but we want to dwell on this mid-mountain basin, with a morphology that is anything but smooth and linear, furrowed by the heads of small rivers descending the slopes to wedge themselves amongst the hills of the Sabina, such as the"Rio Galantina". Nearby, the rocky sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo, originally a grotto, where the goddess of the Sabines, Vacuna, was venerated, reminds us of these places' antiquity of attendance, dating back to before the Romans. It is known that the Romans, once annexed the Sabine civilization, have placed their settlement centers more downhill, merely using these highlands as sources of natural resources and for pastoralism. But in the Middle Ages, intense settlement came back here in the Tancia Pass, with the construction of as many as 2 castles, a demografic growth and the cultivation of these lands. The area became a fundamental hinge between the Sabina and the Reatino areas. We'll retrace these vicissitudes in search of traces of the past and hidden natural treasures, such as the cypress forest of Salisano, a naturalized wood that smells of resin and of the Mediterranean, and the Devil's pools, a small system of waterfalls just downstream from the Galantina springs.,
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