Spoleto, Norcia and Valnerina: Umbria triumph
Sceneries framed by the time and amazing and quiet places, postcard landscapes where old towered and walled villages are spread, rich of witnesses from the past and of religious traditions, musical icons and sports opportunities. An ideal route can start from Spoleto, a cosmopolitan town, elegant, full of views, monuments and places that become each year the setting of the famous Festival of the Two Worlds.
The pond there is very clear and the poplars and the weeping willows look in its mirror. From Spoleto the travellers can go to Valnerina, featured by the park of the river Nera. The rivers Velino and Nera, the lake of Piediluco, the waterfall of Marmore decorate this area that is an open-air gym where you can perform many different activities, mainly the rafting in the river Nera. More than this, there are plenty of peculiar routes and the one that leads to Nicciano from Ferentillo is very nice since it is spread with small churches, the remains of old limestone and coal caves. In Ferentillo there are the natural cliffs that offer climbers hundreds paths - it is not a joke! – but don’t forget to visit the Roman crypt of the church of Santo Stefano di Ferentillo where the mummies are kept inside the crystal shrines that were discovered in 1805. The miracle keeping of the corpses is due to the dry underground atmosphere that is combined to the action of a number of particular micro-organisms.
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