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66 Tratto VICOVARO - JENNE Vicovaro Arsoli Here the river still has a natural look and is protected on both sides by a thick strip of vegetation. Banks are shady, water is clear and rich in oxygen and the leaves of fool’s water cress are shaken by the current. If the approach is not much noisy it is possible to sight some grey herons, standing still on the banks waiting for fish to be captured. Anticoli Corrado’s name is due to Corrado from Antiochia, nephew of Frederick II of Swabia, that in the XIII century inherited it as a feud. Heart of the village and hinge joint between the historical core and the new zone is the Piazza delle Ville, with the modern Noah’s Ark fountain (1926) in the middle. On a corner S. Peter’s Church, with a Romanesque plant and side chapels in gothic style. Anticoli was known in the artists circle of the XIX and the early XX century as a natural “repository” of models, both male and above all female, whose features have inspired several works (the story goes that Anticoli had the “most beautiful women in the whole world”). Coming back on the Tiburtina road, by the 58th kilometer, one takes a narrow dirt road that climbs up on the left reaching an ancient Roman bridge. This is the Scotonico bridge, very well preserved and recently brought to light for its entire highness. <strong>It</strong> represents an original stretch of the ancient Via Valeria, a very important connecting way between Rome and the Adriatic sea through the Apennines. The vault and sides are made of huge blocks of travertine, while the pavement is made of calcareous blocks shaped by the crossing of carts wheels. After two kilometres more one reaches Arsoli. The old town center is dominated by the size of the Castle, owned for over 400 years by the Massimo’s family from Rome. The story of the family is deeply identified with the one of this place. During the XVII century these enlightened feudatories were able to provide Arsoli with many important works, such as an aqueduct, and to relaunch civil and social life after a devastating plague epidemic. The beating heart of the village is the Piazza Valeria, with a lengthened shape, occupied at its edge by a sixteenth-century octagonal fountain. Among the typical products stands out the “fagiolina arsolana”, a dry delicate paste legume that is prepared as a soup or stewed and seasoned with local olive oil, one of the best in Lazio. In the surroundings of the castle park starts the equipped trail of the Devil Pit, short but quite difficult, that goes down into the ravine of the Bagnatore ditch ending on the road to Cervara. At the beginning of the route two charming rocky pinnacles are met as evidence of a selective erosion on the well fractured limestone that has left intact some of the most resistant rocky parts.
Tratto VICOVARO - JENNE Arsoli Jenne Da Arsoli a Jenne La provinciale per Cervara scende da Arsoli fino ad attraversare il Fosso Bagnatore per poi salire dolcemente, fra boschi di carpini, aceri e querce, verso il territorio del Parco Regionale dei Monti Simbruini. Il paese di Cervara di Roma appare come una visione dopo una stretta curva, a oltre 1000 metri di altezza, tutto arroccato sul fianco della montagna ai piedi di un alto spuntone roccioso. “Una scultura nel cielo che al cielo volerebbe se l’aria la sostenesse...”, come lo descrisse il poeta Raphael Alberti. Percorrendo i tornanti che vi salgono ci si accorge che il nucleo abitato è sviluppato per la maggior parte al di là del roc- 67
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