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Dragon Plain

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Dragon Plain

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Dragon Plain

Recommended by 14 road cyclists out of 15

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parco Regionale dei Monti Picentini

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Location: Volturara Irpina, Avellino, Campania, Italy

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1. From Serino to the plateau of Monte Terminio – loop tour

54.6km

03:20

1,350m

Expert road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Dragon Plain – Malepasso Road loop from Parolise-Candida

54.9km

02:55

960m

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3. Monte Terminio Plateau – Malepasso Road loop from Nocera Inferiore Mercato

120km

06:26

2,020m

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Pasquale Donnarumma

September 13, 2021

This enchanting place preserves a very suggestive legend: in the Middle Ages in the village of Volturara, in correspondence with the current "dragon's mouth" it seems that a dragon with three heads and one eye housed a dragon, guarding a treasure. When the Visigoths arrived in the village they made a macabre discovery, namely that the inhabitants of Volturara were periodically obliged to pay human blood by sacrificing victims. The story has it that Jesus, a handsome young man, tall as giants, with his sword, would have killed the evil dragon which would have sunk into the earth creating the infamous "mouth of the dragon".

In more scientific terms it is a karst sinkhole, a sort of precipice that opens on the slopes of Monte Costa, formed after the earthquake of 1456, capable of holding about nine hundred liters of water and which constitutes the focal point of the "Bocca del Dragone ”from which the underground hydrographic network begins.

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Vincenzo

November 13, 2021

Incredible valley after Volturara where there is a legend about a three-headed dragon

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Elevation 680 m

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Location: Volturara Irpina, Avellino, Campania, Italy

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Dragon Plain

1. From Serino to the plateau of Monte Terminio – loop tour

2. Dragon Plain – Malepasso Road loop from Parolise-Candida

3. Monte Terminio Plateau – Malepasso Road loop from Nocera Inferiore Mercato

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