Cairo Mount Trekking

The strongly carsica nature of the massive of the Cairo Mount has determined along the numerous ridges the formation of most numerous coves, some which evocative ones for their magnificence, all famous for legends and history that protagonists see to them. The particularity in fact that it joins to them is the being been inhabited nearly all: from the farthest preistoria until the second World war they have been employed like troglodite rooms, hermitage for monks, stables for herds, antiaircraft hiding places of brigands, shelter of sfollati, shelters, I placed you of crews, military hospitals. The maximum depth, is in vertical that in horizontal, does not exceed the fifty meters and that allows a visit in all emergency. To the inside the limestone concretions often form in also short singular features formations, like the acquasantiera of Dark or the Balcony of In Fear. Some as the Inverse one is today lair of a branco of lupi while others are that that by now remains of water-bearing stratums in sand bank (Cove of the Dog), some finally still show the traces of wall additional with which the modern man has transformed to them. In true and own rooms like those of Abbot and Varciosa, this last supplied anchor of door. Many are still "habitable" in the sense that you can be passed the night in bivouac. Fascinating in fact it is to girovagare between this group of mounts passing from one to the other cove and to live again for some day the ancient life using them like shelter.
To it gets passionate you of speleo we remember the two Zompo coves the Cripple and Hole Marcello, greater information on the situated one of Gruppo Speleologico Guidonia Montecelio.