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2. Sibillini Balcony Viewpoint – Monestino Ruins loop from Roccafluvione

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3. Winding Dirt Road – Monestino Ruins loop from Marino del Tronto-Folignano

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Francesco | Cyclo Ergo Sum

August 17, 2023

Monestino, once a fraction of the municipality of Rocca Casaregnana, today is a set of a few ruins immersed in the vegetation. Its history is a fascinating piece of the medieval history of the Marches. The first traces identify it as a "monastery", a term that suggests an origin linked to a religious community. It is mentioned in the Ascoli land registers of 1381 alongside Vetoli, both part of a union. Over the centuries, Monestino experienced depopulation and territorial changes, culminating in the annexation to Rocca Casaregnana and then to Roccafluvione after the unification of Italy. Today, you can still see the traces of the houses half-buried in the vegetation, as well as the remains of a farmhouse that reveal the various architectural interventions that have taken place over time. A still active spring flows in front of the decaying building, and the road, going up, leads to the top of the village, where the interlocking between nature and architecture creates a suggestive atmosphere.

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enrico malossetti

March 14, 2021

MONESTINO
Fraction of the former municipality of Rocca Casaregnana
The few ruins that lie among the brambles still perpetuate the history of this singular now uninhabited village to visitors. Most probably it originates in the Middle Ages and in the first correspondences that mention it it appears with the name of Monastery, which links the place to an unspecified monastic community. The Ascoli land registers of 1381 treat the hamlet together with Vetoli, as belonging to its own union, which already in the following century had suffered great depopulation and had been annexed to the neighboring Rocca Casaregnana, remaining there until the territorial upheavals of the Roman Republic and of Napoleon, subjected like the whole area to the Department of Tronto. With the restoration in 1815 it passed under Venarotta together with Vetoli, Marsia and Vallicella, to then be definitively united with the municipality of Rocca Casaregnana up to united Italy; in 1863 it will become part of the nascent municipality of Roccafluvione. What remains are some houses semi-submerged by vegetation or reduced to ruins, although some are still inhabited in the summer, built on a cultivated plateau; singular is the ruin of a farmhouse where you can read the various extensions made in different eras. In front of the dilapidated building you can draw water from the still functioning spring, while continuing the road climbs towards the highest part of the incasato where by now the remains of the modest houses have given way to increasingly dense vegetation.

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