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A corner of paradise to be respected and protected! Medium difficulty to get there but very satisfying!

it is found on the path to Sasso di Preguda

The Mother of God depicted and venerated here is the one from Lourdes. This well-known Marian pilgrimage site is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by many people every year, including many sick people who hope for healing. The devotional image of the Mother of God has become widespread - not only in France - and believers have built Lourdes chapels and grottos everywhere. The church's memorial day for "Our Lady of Lourdes" is on February 11th, the anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary (1858), when the Mother of God appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto very close to Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of just 35. On December 8th (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary) 1933, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI. The commemoration of the Madonna of Lourdes is also World Day of the Sick.

Small cave with votive statue of the Madonna, on the path that connects the Erve area with Mount Magnodeno.

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it belongs to the so-called CASOTA .. typical name used in the area to indicate the species of shelters used in the periods in which one had to stay in the mountains to look after the flocks and did not go down to the valley for several days. In this case the shelter is inside a cave, in other cases they are small artificial constructions made with stones found on the spot.

The oldest evidence of the Civate settlement dates back to the third millennium BC. and precisely they can be identified in the remains of five individuals buried inside the so-called Sand Hole. It is a funerary cave with traces of bones, a series of tools and some graffiti, consisting of three successive rooms, the last of which is equipped with a vertical ventilation chimney.