Frasassi and Marche Experience - Marotta

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Frasassi and Marche Experience - Marotta

Saturday, March 23 – Sunday, March 24, 2019   
Cost: €170
Deadline to sign-up and pay is by 5:00pm on Friday, March 8, 2018

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Students must be 18 or older to participate in athletics trips.

Description:

Frasassi Caves and surroundings: Among the most beautiful Karst complexes in Italy and the largest in Europe, these grottoes are a magical world of colors, a labyrinth of chambers, tunnels, halls, steps, small crystalline lakes, alabaster stalactites formed about 1,4 million years ago, and unknown in its magnificent infinity until some decades ago. Amid the irregular scenario of the Apennine mountains lies one of the main speleological sites in Europe, inside the uncontaminated nature of a Regional Park, a complex system of caves rising over a deep canyon, where the pure waters slowly flow and continue to feed the chemical and erosion processes which make of this marvelous site a living environment, with formations growing according to the slow calendar of geological time.

San Vicino: The reserve, which is characterized by formations of massive limestone of the upper Trias, includes in addition to the M. San Vicino (1.045 m) also the plateau of Canfaito located on the slopes.
Landscape value is linked to the presence of a flat ridge area, from the relatively large wooded areas, alternated with pastures, which together constitute a particularly sweet and harmonious landscape, even if of anthropic origin.
Also important are the anthropological and archaeological values ​​given by caves, ravines and sub-rock shelters inhabited since prehistoric times and in which ancient stone tools and tools were also found.
The vegetation is instead formed by large beech-woods reduced to copse, in which however there are also old specimens (up to 6 m in circumference). These true patriarchs of nature, have been saved from the cuts because the shepherds, during the hot hours of the summer months, they took refuge there seeking shelter among their large foliage (merigge).
From the faunistic point of view it is important to remember the presence of the wolf, roe deer, wild cat, eagle owl, peregrine falcon and red woodpecker.

Schedule:

1nd day: Departure 7.00 am from Tiber Campus: arriving in Frasassi at 10AM. We will visit the amazing Grotte di Frasassi with our tour guide. Soon after we will walk to the Valadier Temple, a small church built inside the mountain in an amazing grotto. Packed lunch provided. At 2.30PM we will drive to Marotta (arriving around 4PM) where we will check in our Hotel Biancaneve. Free time and relax on the beach. At 7.30PM Dinner at the hotel with a typical Marche seafood dinner (other options available).

2rd day: at 10.30AM we will leave the hotel and head to San Vicino, we will arrive there around 12.00PM. Hike of San Vicino Mountain: From Prati di San Vicino to the peak of the mountain. (Level of excursion E). Packed lunch included. We will head back to Rome around 5.00PM.

Minimum Number of Participants Required 7.

Maximum Number of Participants: 16.



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