A trek to discover one of the most representative gems of Sabina, a pair of twin fortresses that guard the Imella river gorge: Rocchette and Rocchettine, admiring, from the top of the surrounding hills, a splendid view of this sector of the territory called Ager Foronovanum

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WHERE SHALL WE GO?

• Town of Rocchette and abandoned fortress of Rocchettine
• The Montagnola of Rocchette
• The Imella Valley with its gorges
• Roman cistern and ruins of Roman villas in the countryside

WHAT SHALL WE SEE/DO?

• The splendid perched villages of Rocchette and Rocchettine that guard the Imella Valley from above
• The holm oak woods on  the limestone hills in the surroundings
• The mediterrean shrub of the sunny summits of the hills, the characteristic weeds and their uses.
• The Roman cisterns on the hills that used to serve as water reservoirs for the villas
• The Roman cistern of Campaone and the remans of the Roman Villa of the Montagnola
• The Imella stream gorge, dug deep into the limestone and the geological peculiarities of the area