리세르바 디 코르나키아이아 주변 최고의 폭포 하이킹 & 워킹 코스

Please take into account that it is very technical and some roads are closed.

Presence of water fountain

Eremo della Sambuca (Valle Benedetta - Livorno) The hermitage is located south of the Valle Benedetta in the forest of the Livorno Mountains. Already known in the 13th century as an Augustinian hermitage, one of the many that flourished throughout the Christian West to welcome those who wanted to retreat in prayer far from the noise of the world, in 1390 it took the name of Eremo di Santa Maria in Parrana Among others, the Gesuati penitential friars settled there. The Gesuati (not to be confused with the Jesuits) were born as an association of lay penitents founded in the 14th century by St. Giovanni de' Colombini from Siena. They preached peace, poverty and their main function, in addition to prayer, was to assist the sick, the poor and the needy. They spread throughout Italy and, in particular in Tuscany, founded many convents. The Augustinian hermitage was expanded and strengthened by them with other interventions in the vicinity (cultivations, a water mill, "icehouses"). Precisely because of the holy life that these monks led and because of its position sunken into the valley of the Ugione stream, the hermitage took the name of Santa Buca, or Sambuca. Over time, the Gesuati also took over the administration of the Sanctuary of Montenero. After the Gesuati order was suppressed in 1668 by Pope Clement IX (and their assets confiscated to support the war against the Turks), the complex passed to a series of private owners and followed a long period of decline. The structure consisting of a small church (with a single nave, divided into three bays with a circular apse, cross vaults and remains of frescoes, including an Annunciation), cells, guesthouse, refectory, kitchen, granary, cellar, is in poor condition. Since 1950 the structure has been a state-owned building of the Municipality of Collesalvetti. In 1912 it was declared a national monument and a few years ago it was entrusted to the Parish of Giovanni Gualberto in Valle Benedetta.

Villa Cristina is a scout house. In the summer of 2023 I was also lucky enough to go camping with the Salesians

Ancient Hermitage, whose oldest nucleus dates back to 1100 (small church of Santa Maria di Parrana, with a few cells, Augustinian Fathers of S. Jacopo in Acquaviva), located in the valley of the Ugione torrent, in the Provincial Natural Park of the Livornesi Mountains and in the complex regional agricultural-forestry Livornesi Hills (Valle Benedetta Forest). From 1390 the hermitage took the name of Santa Maria della Sambuca and the penitential Gesuati friars settled there (until 1668, the year of dissolution of the order), with consequent expansion of the structure (church, cells, guesthouse, refectory, kitchen, barn, cellar). A state property since 1950, the Hermitage has been partly renovated with CIPE funds, but is in a state of abandonment and the other two wings (including the beautiful cloister) require urgent conservative restoration. Of great interest for the circuit of existing routes that touch other cultural emergencies such as the remains of mills on the Ugione stream (late 1600s - early 1700s), the ice houses (late 1700s) and other historical-cultural testimonies, as well as naturalistic and geological emergencies.

The Agesci and Cngei scouts are responsible for managing Villa Cristina, which is a structure immersed in the greenery of the Livornesi Mountains provincial park, precisely between the Corbolone shooting gallery and the Sambuca Hermitage. The structure, public, and owned by the Tuscany Region, which entrusted its management first to the province of Livorno and subsequently to the Colline Metallifere body

On nice days the view of Livorno is not bad... the dirt road is easy to cycle on

The Ugione torrent is a modest stream, barely 15 km long, with a torrential regime, poor in water during summer and winter, rich during autumn and spring. It has its source in the "Valle Benedetta" at 400 m. of altitude and in the first part it descends steeply forming here and there small waterfalls; one of these, Cascata dell’Infernaccio (coord. 43.55875; 10.40232), accessible by means of a wooded footpath, is particularly suggestive: about ten meters high, it is surrounded by vegetation and feeds a small pond. Along its upper course Ugione shows traces of human activity and settlements over time: some old farms, the remains of a water mill, the so-called ice-houses and the Sambuca hermitage. Reached the plain, the stream flows to the outskirts of Livorno and finally into the sea at the industrial port. The entire upper course of the stream is particularly suitable for trekking and mountbiking, using the road (mainly dirt and full of detours and side paths) that from the sp 4 (via delle Sorgenti, coord. 43.565424, 10.391042) leads up to the village of Valle Benedetta (43.522970, 10.415446), on the top. You can reach by bus both the starting point and the arrival point of the route.