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モンテ・ソラッテのサント・オレステにあるサンタ・ロマーナの隠れ家は、山の北東斜面にある洞窟の中に彫られた岩窟教会で、木々に覆われ非常に趣のある場所にあります。伝承によれば1218年に奉献されたとされていますが、この場所はキリスト教以前の崇拝にも関連する、さらに古い起源を持つようです。 この遺跡からは、隠れ家が現在見えるよりも広かったことを示す壁や遺跡の残骸が見られ、また洞窟の湿った壁にはフレスコ画も見られます。内部には、岩から流れ落ちる水を溜める大理石の水盤もあり、伝統的に母乳が出ない女性が信仰のために使用していました。

Slightly hidden and covered by bush but still interesting to observe along the way

The nature reserve extends over about a thousand hectares between the Tiber Valley and the Cornicolani Mountains, in the Roman Sabina. The landscape is hilly, with pasture areas, crops and fragments of woods, remnants of the original forests. The area is known for its botanical value and for karst phenomena such as caves and sinkholes, including the Pozzo del Merro, one of the deepest in the world. The reserve also preserves historical evidence, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

The meri are very deep karst cavities. Easy path to follow. Start from the large Sant'Oreste car park, the one below the road. There are three of them, all close together. On the same path, a little further on, there is the church in the cave of Santa Romana, a beautiful place that deserves to be visited.

Between Calcata and Mazzano you can admire in several points ancient tombs and structures of the Etruscan people of the Falisci.

The Meri del Soratte are wells (three in total) that are connected to each other. Already known in the times of Pliny the Elder, these wells, according to him, are the gateway to the Kingdom of the Underworld.

This church was dedicated to the Saint of Todi. The peculiarity of this church consecrated in 1218 is that it was built inside a cave.

Faliscan necropolis 'Cavone del Monte Li Santi'