The Sibillini chain, with its imposing limestone peaks and expansive plateaus, is one of the most important natural areas in Europe, especially cherished for its wild landscape of archaic beauty. Its natural surroundings are open to all, from expert excursionists to weekend trekkers.
It reveals its secrets to all who patiently travel here, as the roaming riders once uncovered the Sibylline prophetess who, as legend has it, lived in the caverns of the mountain (now Mt. Sibylline, as the entire chain is now named in her honour). From its highest peak, the 2476 metres Mt. Vettore, visitors can catch a glimpse of the Pian Grande plains, with its multi-coloured flowered carpet, or of Lake Pilato, a small basin of water with glacial origins at 2000 metres high, inhabited by a miniscule red crustacean with the bizarre habit of swimming belly-up.
The Sibillini chain, with its imposing limestone peaks and expansive plateaus, is one of the most important natural areas in Europe, especially cherished for its wild landscape of archaic beauty. Its natural surroundings are open to all, from expert excursionists to weekend trekkers.
It reveals its secrets to all who patiently travel here, as the roaming riders once uncovered the Sibylline prophetess who, as legend has it, lived in the caverns of the mountain (now Mt. Sibylline, as the entire chain is now named in her honour). From its highest peak, the 2476 metres Mt. Vettore, visitors can catch a glimpse of the Pian Grande plains, with its multi-coloured flowered carpet, or of Lake Pilato, a small basin of water with glacial origins at 2000 metres high, inhabited by a miniscule red crustacean with the bizarre habit of swimming belly-up.
