Active tourism between health and wealth

From the health care with San Vittore thermal bath’s sulphurous water, as also the Ancient Romans had done, to the "school without walls", it is as much as this route proposes, taking advantage also to visit the Frasassi Caves and the Archaeological Speleological museum, a new one.
Not secondary the Predicatore Mountain Path, between centuries old pinewoods, become today a kind of green area of conifers, well known for its history and the breathing balsamic air, that diminishes toward Fossi Lake, a meetig place for the itinerant tourism, full of aquatic fauna and wild duck.

The green Valleremita hall

The Green Valleremita Hall, it is supplied with workshop and Naturalistic Museum and with an equipped didactic way that develops inside the Valdisasso wood. The hall presents, in the space of just a kilometer and half (from an altitude of 420 m. climbed up to about 600 m. above sea level), different kinds of vegetation: from the hornbeam and flowering ash wood, at the beginning of the way, to the beech and centuries old trees wood, near the Hermitage, to the wood of ilex, a typical Mediterranean scrub tree, that takes root at the highest altitudes on the rocky coast of Rogedano Mountain.
The exposure of the pouring and the morphology of the valley, make the place particularly interesting. Its natural richies was an inspiration source, sometime fantastic, sometime brilliantly real for Gentile da Fabriano works, where often appear landscapes, his origin earth flora and fauna.
At an altitude of 600 m the path meets Santa Maria di Valdisasso’s Hermitage where at the beginning of the XIII century San Francesco stayed. For the hermitage, after 1405, Chiavello Chiavelli, Fabriano’s Lord, commissioned to the painter Gentile the “Polittico di Valleremita” representing the Virgin Mary Coronation. Nowadays the work is in Brera’s Gallery in Milan but a copy of the masterpiece decorates the ancient Hermitage’s church that is preserved by Francescani Minori Community.

San Vittore thermal bath

The termal bath, placed at the entrance of Frasassi Caves, few meters from the millenary San Vittore delle Chiuse Abbey, in which coenoby has been realized recently the Archaeological Speleological Museum, have very ancient origins. In the termal bath are practised inhaling care, rhinogenous deafness, balneotheray, mud bath treatment, balneo-mud bath treatment, massotherapy, and thermal aesthetics treatment. In the tour of the establishment, on request, is possible interviewing the guests to study their origin, the benefits of the cares, the average stay and so on respecting a standard model or according to the school’s plan of studies.

 
TOUR'S TIMETABLE
 
1st day
Time
         - Morning arrival, baggage arrangement, guides
           meeting, programm’s check

         -
move to Valleremita               
13,00 -
Packed lunch in an open space
15,00 - Didactic tour from Valleremita to Santa Maria di
           Valdisasso Hermitage
         -
tour of museum’s halls and trip presentation
         -
guided trip in the wood: natural environment
           description referring to Gentile’s botanic
           ichnography

         -
view of Gentile’s Pollittico copy and meeting
           with the Hermitage’s Franciscan Community

    
    - return to the hotel
20,00 -
Dinner and overnight stay
2ndday
           Breakfast
  9,30
-
Move to Predicatore Mountain
         -
walk on CAI path in the pinewood to Fossi Lake
         -
observation of trees and of the flight of rapacious
         -
observation of lake’s wild ducks
13,00 -
Lunch
         -
short rest
16,00 -
Tour of S. Vittore delle Chiuse Romanic Abbey
         -
tour of Speleological and Paleontological Museum
20,00 -
Dinner and overnight stay
3rd day
           Breakfast
  9,30 -
Tour of thermal bath and interview with the guests
         -
Walk along sentino River, from the Roman Bridge
           to the sulphurous source

13,00 -
Lunch
         -
Guided tour of Frasassi Caves

Individual attendance’s rate
for group of 10 people

One day                                                  12,00 Euro
Two days                                                68,00 Euro
Three days                                            120,00 Euro
The rates include: museums admission, didactic workshop, guides, full board.
The rates do not include:
packet lunch of the first day and everything else not explicit stated. Free admission: to the teachers, one person every twenty paying people.
Transports: upon request.
Teaching and informative equipment:
slipcase with these volumes: “Guide to the territory of the Esini Hills” and “The Rural Atmosphere).
 

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