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The story of Pieve Torina as a borderland marking the point of transition for peoples in history stretches back over three millennia and the area is frought with relics dating from the bronze age and the neolithic, which seem to merge history and legends. The Umbrians, the Etruscans, Hannibal and his Carthagineses, after the battle of Lake Trasimeno, they all trod this very soil. Later in time the Lombards and, like everywhere else in the area around these mountains, the Benedictine monks, who paved the way for a cultural second birth of the city. Later on, in the Middle Ages, the Franciscan monks and the pilgrims passing through San Ginesio on their way to the shrines of Loreto and Assisi. The many hamlets or smaller villages into which the area is devided are, without exceptions, all places of great historical and artistic value set in an unspoilt wonder of nature.
Text by Fabio Santilli
Translation by Gianfranco Martorano |