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Tramonti sulla Rocca

Medieval Stronghold, built over Samnite outpost, on highrock outcropping over looking Antica via Appia and Ansanto valley. Below north 3 km, is the famous Mefite a fumarole that since the time of the Samnite was a main shrine at the volcano Ampsanctus in Ansanto vally Samnium. It is the place that Virgil described 2,000 years ago in the Aeneid, when he wrote: “Est locus Italiae medio sub montibus altis, nobilis et fame multis memoratus in oris, Amsancti valles”...

There is a place in the middle of Italia beneath high mountains, noble and celebrated for fame in many places, the Ansanto Valley.” (Verses 563-565, VII book, The Aeneid)

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Uploaded on May 21, 2019
Taken on October 3, 2016