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There was just a little bit of mud...

medium difficulty route. some rocky sections

Ruins of the old city of Cencelle

Cencelle the old Civitavecchia

It is a historic place where the old Civitavecchia-Orte railway passed

It is a place rich in history surrounded by wild nature

from Wiki: "According to what is reported in the Liber Pontificalis, the city was founded by Pope Leo IV on 15 August of the year 854 to give a safer seat to the citizens of Centumcellae (Civitavecchia) and the related diocese[1], being the city hit by the raids of the Saracens on the Tyrrhenian coast. According to his biographer, the pope gave the new city the name of Leopoli, but in all the documents, in the first centuries, the name of Centumcellae - civitas or castrum centumcellensis, later changed, is found in Centucelle - Cincelle - Cencelle. The new city was founded on a branch of the Via Aurelia, on an easily defensible hill between the Mignone river and its tributary Melledra, which had also been occupied in ancient times by the Etruscans. At the time of the foundation, the city walls were built, a first church, an episcopal seat, with an adjoining cemetery and wooden houses, later replaced by brick houses and buildings. The main church dedicated to Saint Peter was rebuilt larger between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century. The city was damaged by the earthquake of 1349 and the buildings were subsequently restored. It progressively declined and at the beginning of the 15th century the lands were, according to sources, "destroyed and uninhabited". In the second half of the fifteenth century the city area was used for the exploitation of the alum mines in the Tolfa mountains and in the seventeenth century it was probably the center of an agricultural company".

The village was born to house the miners who worked in the area. Here, in fact, alunite mines were discovered.