Civita di bagnoregio in the “Teverina Viterbese” region, an intact, semi-abandoned medieval village, perched on a rocky promontory, which, due to the progressive subsidence of the land tongue that still unites it to its hinterland, is becoming like an "island" surrounded by white gullies.
A geological landscape among the most fascinating and evocative, sometimes even a little disturbing, for the sense of impermanence that transmits. Modeled fundamentally by landslides, the landscape of the gullies consists of rock erosion shapes on white clay hilly slopes, deposited between 5 and 3 million years ago, in the Pliocene, in a time when the area of the Tiber Valley was completely submerged by the sea, a deep sea in this area. What we perceive here is the strenuous struggle of man and nature to slow down an inexorable process of disintegration, which in fact, if you think about it, is valid for all the mountains and hills of the world, but it is only in places like these, where the erosion is so continuous and rapid, that we realize it dramatically. Following what remains of ridge paths that were once used by the paesants to move from inhabited centers, to the countryside, we will see "the dying village", Civita di Bagnoregio, so called because of the precariousness of the tuffaceous residue on which it rests. Despite this, Civita’s rocky tufa basement still protects the village from the definitive collapse due to the erosion of the friable terrains below. Naturally, we will see all the extraordinary geological forms and the surprising adaptations of the living world to this very particular landscape.
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