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The upper Lazio's region including part of Viterbo and Rome Provinces is named "Tuscia", the term derives from the Latin plural tusci of tuscus/etruscus; the Tuscia is therefore the Etruscan civilization cradle. In these lands landscape is shaped by the forms of an ancient and very extensive volcanic activity, now extinguished: volcanic mountains, caldera lakes, thermal areas, plateaus built by the tufa and engraved by watercourses in countless canyons, or gorges. The plains, where today a flourishing and industrialized agriculture occures, alternate with the steep and wild woody gorges slopes, with tufa vertical cliffs, riddled everywhere by the chisel of the Etruscan civilization first, Roman and medieval later: caves, tombs, shelters, houses and rocky sanctuaries are found everywhere, witnesses of a troglodyte culture from which we have drawn our survival rules up to "yesterday". A hypogeal world complementary to that, external and luminous, of the beautiful tufa villages, perched on the edge of the gorges ravines. A land, the Tuscia, full of mystery and suggestion.
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STROLLING AMONG CANEPINA'S CHESTNUT GROVES |
Tuscia's "Baobabs". A dive into Monti Cimini chestnut trees' landscape and culture |
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CORCHIANO GORGES:THE TUFF LANDSCAPE |
Discovering an archaic geological and cultural landscape | 4H |
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VASANELLO AND THE CERAMICS "LANDSCAPE" |
Pristine gorges and rocky medieval settlements around Vasanello that save its millenary ceramics vocation's signs |
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THE HOLY ROCKY LANDSCAPE BETWEEN BOMARZO AND CHIA |
Castello Stream's gorge, the Etruscan Pyramid and other treasures of Teverina |
4H |
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THE "CHERRIES TRIANGLE" BETWEEN CELLENO, S. ANTONIO AND ROCCALVECCE |
Among Celleno and Roccalvecce, discovering the cherry trees landscape in Teverina |
4H |
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FIELDS AND LAWNS LANDSCAPE OF THE TARQUINIA'S MAREMMA |
Walking in the boundless fields and lawns landscape of the ancient latifundia of the Tarquinese countryside that embraces the the ancient Etruscan city’s archaeological treasures |
4H |
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CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO'S CALANQUES |
A wonderful village engulfed in a precarious and stunning "white" landscape, modeled and continually demolished by landslides |
6H |
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VICO LAKE: A "MICRO NGORONGORO" OF HISTORY AND LEGEND |
A walk to know the extraordinary story of the Vico Volcano, with the homonymous lake |
4H |
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