The Cove of the Sibilla | « Indietro
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The Cove of the Sibilla, said also of (Alcina wizard) or the fairies, is a cavity that is found to 2150m on the depositor south of the Sibilla Mount. The cove second the legend, was in far times, lived from a profetessa mysterious, said Appennine Sibilla. A mythical-profane figure, that it would have been condemned from God to live in the depth of the mountain till the universal judgment, being itself rebelled to the wish dell' Omnipotent because it wanted to become the mother of Christ. For the local tradition instead the Sibilla it would be a good fairy, whose ancelle they come down sometimes to goes teaching them to the children l' art of the webbing and the spinning. The more meaningful documentation of the visit to the cove is that of Antoine Knows de it them, a French knight, than 18 May 1420 it caught up l' cavern tracing some a first verosimile descizione. It collects the testimonies bloomed around this cove and it writes to them in its book " Paradis de the Reine Sibyle". About this place of it Abramo Ortel speaks to us also, second which the cove is not other that l' access to a reign of palaces, garden and sweet children. In the history of the Guerrin Meschino, written from Andrea di Barberino in 1410, the protagonist, that it is to the search of the parents, it catches up the cove in issue and you it remains an entire year between thousand temptations, but it succeeds not to fall in the sin saving itself l' spirit. At the end it exits and it returns in the normal world. The three legends, even if various, turn out interlaced between they and all draw cue from the mysterious cove. These lussuoreggianti descriptions of the place, contrast with the state put into effect them, as now it is introduced with the incomes partially occluded from full of rocks detritus and great franati unstable blocks from the depositor. In the July of 1953, l' Belgian real academy, organized a inspection that gave insufficient result. Successive maldestri archaeological participations pseudo, completed using even explosive, sconquassarono the cove, than now are practically inaccessible. Its valid and reliable thought inner structure, is that of Lippi-Boncampi in 1946, than it says to us of a composed cavity from one knows it inner high 4 meters and to square plant, which it is approached through a little one pertugio. It knows it inner continues to the west and towards low through endowed a deep sink the 4 meters of a short lateral distribution.
Since now it is impossible to visit, ............ it does not remain to us that to fantasticare on this mysterious place. From May of 2009 to Montemonaco, near the Villa Curiums, they have inaugurated a Museum entitled to the Sibilla, with photo documents, and other material recovered in the cove. For information sull' timetable of the visits to contact number 0736 856462.
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