It's a voyage back in the peasant memory, to rediscover the landscape of “monticazione” (cattle summer grazing at high altitude). The pastures that reach 800m, today like the Middle Ages are frequented by many animals: horses, cows, sheeps and goats are often found together with pigs in the wild.
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WHERE SHALL WE GO?
- Cottanello's lawns highplain
- The ancient Cottanello Marble caves
- San Cataldo Medieval Hermitage
WHAT SHALL WE SEE/DO?
- The beautiful pastoral village of "Casette di Cottanello" inhabited only by livestock
- The beautyful mountain landscape shaped by karsism and used as pasture by yesterday's and today's cattle
- The reinassance caves of the Cottanello Marble
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