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The most unique fountain of all uses a hydraulic organ.

Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001, the villa, with its impressive concentration of fountains, nymphaeums, grottos, water features and the water organ, is a masterpiece of Italian garden art.

Mentana, 20 km from Rome, is a village in the Roman Sabina area known for its Sabina DOP extra virgin olive oil and the Macchia di Gattaceca Nature Reserve. The meeting between Charlemagne and Pope Leo III and the Battle of Mentana in 1867, led by Garibaldi, took place here. The village preserves historical monuments such as the Baronial Palace and the Capuchin Convent. The MuGa – Garibaldino Museum commemorates the heroes of the Risorgimento. Mentana is also famous for festivals dedicated to culinary specialties such as ciammella a cancellu and maccheroni a centonara, and for traditional celebrations such as that of Sant'Antonio Abate.

From here the climb to Monte Morra begins.

Strada Bianca connecting via della Cesarina and via di Casal Boccone. The first stretch is a dirt road up to the bridge that crosses the ring road; then continues on a beaten path between cultivated fields. It ends with an easy singletrack up to Via Casal Boccone skirting the Almaviva building.

"The Marcellina Gold Mine was strongly desired by the architect and photographer Romolo Belvedere and created by the Venezuelan artist Luis Gomez de Teran, known for his socially conscious works and who worked on the Marcellina Gold Mine using as the basis for the photographic reportage "The Faces of Stone", created by Belvedere himself in the mid-80s of the last century. The work is a permanent installation and has a dual value: it enhances a decidedly ugly and impactful industrial archeology site (occupies a large part of the mountain ridge) and becomes witness to a collective effort made of work and sacrifices, in which men and women, farmers, miners and shepherds were silent witnesses of an era now over, in which women like Teodora Fornari they were miners, mothers, wives and spent their whole lives in difficult working conditions (https://bussoladiario.com/2021/02/la-miniera-doro-di-marcellina.html)

You can still follow the path by bike, but you pass in front of inhabited houses

One of the several singletracks inside the Reserve, you enter from the side of the motorway facing Mezzaluna to exit on the provincial road that connects Monterotondo with Castelchiodato. It does not require particular technical skills, the only precaution in autumn and winter is that the bottom can be slippery due to mud and fallen leaves