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34 rupestrian hermitage of S. Michael Archangel, built around a cave in a place where, according to a local tale, the young saint would pierce to death a terrible dragon. Going down towards the valley floor some great examplars of “married vines” twisted round maple trees can be found, as residual evidence of a country practice that once used to be popular and nowadays is almost disappeared. The technique consisted in using spontaneous trees, very rustic and common in the country lands such as maples, elms and poplars, as a support for the vines. Tratto VICOVARO - VARCO SABINO Orvinio Collalto Sabino After little more than two km on the way down, the small town of Pietraforte is met, also included in the Pozzaglia hamlets, an ancient fortified village built on a calcareous cliff, where part of the original walls and some considerable entry arches survive. Still on the way down one crosses the Turano river in order to reach the Turanense road, by the valley floor, where it is necessary to turn on the right. After one km there’s a turn on the left to go up to the village of Collalto Sabino. The name “Collalto” derives from the latin collis altus and reminds the dominant position on the Valeria road and the surrounding plain, that once used to be the boundary between the Papal State and the Bourbon Kingdom, nowadays between the Lazio and Abruzzo regions. The village has been included in a list of about one hundred “most beautiful villages of <strong>It</strong>aly”, with small rocky houses all gathered around the majestic castle, unifying element of the urban environment, high and visible, with its battlements and embattled towers, from the alleys and the squares around. In the structure of the fortress the shapes connected to the primary defensive function can be distinguished from those related to a use as aristocratic Palazzo. In order to enter, stairs must be climbed leading to the drawbridge and the main door surmounted by the coat of arms of the Barberini family with three bees.
Tratto VICOVARO - VARCO SABINO Collalto Sabino Varco Sabino Da Collalto Sabino a Varco Sabino Da Collalto si inizia a scendere verso Carsoli e, dopo quasi due chilometri, si gira a sinistra sulla provinciale per Collegiove e Marcetelli. La strada degrada dolcemente verso una stretta e lunga pianura di fondovalle. Percorsi due chilometri, con una breve deviazione sulla destra si può salire al paese di Nespolo dalla caratteristica forma a ferro di cavallo, affacciato sull’inconfondibile e maestoso profilo “a chiglia di nave rovesciata” del Monte Cervia. Il borgo è circondato da foreste che si estendono quasi senza soluzione di continuità. Il suo nome deriva da “acquam nespuli”, acqua di nespolo, dall’antica denominazione locale di un bosco in cui questa pianta cresceva spontanea. Nella parte alta 35
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