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Track details

Distance

2.8km

Duration

1h 00min

Ascent

207m

Descent

167m

Starting altitude

1162m

Arrival altitude

1202m

Lowest point

1096m

Highest point

1221m

Puntato pasture

Located between 1000 and 1100 meters above sea level in a place where paths 11 from Fociomboli and 128 from Tre Fiumi to the Rifugio Del Freo converge, this basin is surrounded by the Corchia, Freddone Pania della Croce and Pizzo delle Saette mountains, which from here it appears in its most imposing guise.

In past centuries, and up to the 80s, it was used by the shepherds of the Terrinca community, as evidenced by the old farmhouses and ruins of the area and also a church that stands in the center of the mountain pasture. Some farmhouses have been renovated and used for the reception of hikers and day trippers with beds and kitchen: the “Il Robbio” hut which is a small farm, the “Ciampi” hut and the “La Quiete” refuge.

The church of Puntato is dedicated to the SS. Trinity and dates back to 1679, nearby there was an older majesty built for his devotion by Francesco Bacchelli with a marble icon dedicated to the Madonna of the Rosary with the Child and St. John the Baptist. After the dismantling of the majesty, the icon was walled up on the church wall and subsequently stolen in 1973.

The wild man Spelunk

The entrance is at 1150 meters, the depth is 281 meters and the spatial development around 1400.
The cave was known by the valleys from time immemorial and they had created frightening legends on it.
The first descent, a few tens of meters, dates back to 1912, a subsequent one in 1923 went further, but only in the period 1929-1930 did an expedition of the GSF travel the entire cave.
The entrance is an imposing sinkhole in which a small stream of water that descends from Corchia is lost, the cave consists of a series of galleries and wells.
The name derives from a very widespread figure in local folklore and in general all over the world.
Hairy, monstrous, wild and cave dweller, homo selvaticus is a myth born with humanity: it is the ancestral past that cannot be forgotten.
One looks at it on one side with nostalgia for what has been lost and on the other with contempt and a sense of superiority for the civilization that we think we have acquired.
So he looks at it with a mixture of fear and admiration and he himself acquires both positive and negative values ​​in the collective imagination.
Local legends say that he taught shepherds how to use milk to make cheese and ricotta, but then annoyed by their further requests he returned to his caves.
However, other versions consider him as a dangerous being who wanders through the forests from which he comes out to kidnap girls and is dedicated to bloody and pagan rites.