ALTO LAZIO VITERBESE
"Luni sul Mignone"
Sunday, March 20, 2011
PROGRAM:
Meeting of Participants at the parking lot of the arch (former FIAT) Orvieto at 07,45 on Sunday March 20 and leaving at 08:00 with his car.
INFO:
For further information members can be put in communication with the Director of Giovanni Vignoli hike at the following phone number 0763-342657 or with the Co-Alcide Henry Crespi number 0763-341908
one hour before departure and throughout the period of travel, will be according to the following mobile numbers:
- 342-0037998
Alpine Club - Gianni
340-3535409 - 331-1211600 Henry
RESERVATIONS:
L ' Registration will take place at the headquarters and will begin from Saturday, March 5, 2011, ending Thursday, March 17, 2011.
The Office is open as follows:
- Thursday from 21.00 hours to 23.00 hours
- Saturday from 16.30 to 18.30
The non-members who wish to participate in the excursion are obliged to release at the time of booking fee of €. .= 5.50 (cost of insurance for activation), indicating at the time of their personal data (name, address and date of birth), again no later than the Thursday before the hike .
PATH:
Leave the car at the ex-Civitavecchia railway Capranica the path as we begin to attached map.
difference in height 260 feet, to descend the slope is the usual travel time of 6 hours including stops for lunch. Difficulty E
REMEMBER participants of the need 'CLOTHING APPROPRIATE FOR hiking boots and trekking mountain path, on pain of exclusion from the excursion.
Our goal, to give you some news, is to evoke your curiosity and to make this trip more interesting by giving some information that may be helpful to better understand the environment we visit.
Luni on Mignone is a late prehistoric settlement and Etruscan, which in medieval times lasted a cult activities, meaning that was continuously occupied for more than two thousand years.
area that we will visit include the route of the old abandoned railroad Capranica-Civitavecchia, dating from the nineteenth century, which was used by miners Tolfa then readjusted between the two world wars, finally abandoned in 1961 due to a landslide. It can be accessed through the ruins of Luni open trails through the vegetation or cut into the rock
The scenic bridge over the River Mignone is a true relic of industrial architecture and offers a point of view from which see a very characteristic trait of the Valle del Mignone, which winds between wooded hills.
the plateau of the ruins, landscape or wider towards the valley that, in the distance you can see the Monti Sabatini, Cimini and Tolfa and the hills of the Valley Biedano.
On Luni tuff cliff dwellings are the fundamental from the Bronze Age, the long rectangular huts made of branches with gabled roof and the bottom partially excavated in the tufa, in his time inhabited by several families. Stood in the middle of the plateau bordered by long, deep ditches at the ends of which are the remains of a house expanded during the Iron Age, excavated in the tuff assigned to the foodstuff, which denotes a social organization is very important for this period .
Abandoned in the late Etruscan period, the hill takes on new importance in the Middle Ages, when there were built houses, a small castle and a chapel.
The collection of archaeological remains, natural rock outcrops or worked by human hand, natural vegetation hanging, and climbing trees, form a set in some places of great beauty.
remember and meditate on the fact that this place has escaped the indifference and thus its potential to spread information through the unforgettable season of the Swedish royal archeology years from '50 to '60 of the XX century.
Directors excursion
Giovanni Vignoli and Alcide Henry Crespi
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