Trekking St. John's Hermitage

Tiziana DecemberApril 11, 2016daily trekking

Set in one of the fiercest looking the valley walls Orfento is St. John's Hermitage, one of the most beautiful hermitages of Majella, completely carved by hand in imposing limestone typical of our mountains of Abruzzo. this hermitage, for its particular inaccessibility and for the famous hermitical permanence of Celestine V inside( It seems to have lived there for nearly nine years, from 1284 al 1293), It evokes a mood and highlights the complementary nature that man and environment had on this mountain until not too many years ago '.

Technical data

DIFFICULTY ': E (Media)

TRAVEL TIME: 4/5 ore

DIFFERENCE IN UPHILL: 450 m

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Majella National Park

Tiziana DecemberMarch 11, 2015Blog, where we operate

The Majella National Park established in 1991, It has an extension of 74.095 ha, account 39 common and includes 4 large orographic individuality: the Majella massif, Morrone, Porrara and Monti Pizzi. With the second highest peak of the Apennines (Monte Amaro 2793 m), and the 55% of its territory at elevations higher than 2000 m, It is the second highest mountain range of the Apennines.

To see her from afar Majella appears massive and compact, but to see it close up it turns deep cracks which conceal an unexpected and surprising world: a long lattice I, Deep times, dry and cut into the rock like canyons, other more open and lush with streams on the bottom, as Alpine valleys. While those who walk at the top, above the 2400 m, He discovers an amazing world of arid and undulating stony, a particular environment, almost lunar, unique in the Apennines.

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