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Leggends
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Legends
The Sibillini Mountains are traditionally associated with the legend
of the Sibilla. This is a prophetess, a mythic
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character
living in a grotto at 2150 meters above sea level on the South side
of the Sibilla Mountain. In the legend,
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sisters,so
that they couldn’t easily come back. On the same mountains, we find
the "devilish" Pilato lake, According to tradition, the Governor
of Palestine,
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that they couldn’t easily come back. On the same mountains, we find
the "devilish" Pilato lake, According to tradition, the Governor
of Palestine, condemned to death by Vespasian, was thrown in the
lake on a carriage pulled by buffaloes. Many other places have menacing
names such as Devil’s Peak, Hell, Devil’s Grotto, Bad Passage and
they testimony how the roughness of this territory has always inspired
the curiosity of many visitors.
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Norcia - Leggends - Sorrounding
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