Frasassi between spirituality, history and nature

Duration

3 hours

Overview

Hidden between the walls of an ancient cave, there is a place that seems to come out of a fantasy story. It is the Tempietto del Valadier, a neoclassical church built by Pope Leo XII in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Gola della Rossa and Frasassi. We will visit a huge system of cavities and ravines that is part of the complex of caves of the Parco Gola della Rossa - Frasassi. The inscription reads Refugium Peccatorum: the place has in fact given refuge to believers fleeing from the world or perhaps from themselves for centuries. Not far from the Valadier temple is another sacred building that shares the walls with the mountain and is precariously perched outside the cave. This is the Madonna Infra Saxa, a hermitage dating back to 1029 where Benedictine nuns lived in seclusion. At the end of the tour we will also visit San Vittore delle Chiuse, one of the four most beautiful Romanesque abbeys of the year 1000 in the Marche region.