L’AQUILA – On foot on a stretch of the Tratturo Magno, from Peltuinum to Civitaretenga in the Navelli saffron territory, in the province of L’Aquila. Over one hundred people took part yesterday in the excursion organized by Univaq and the Cai L’Aquila section in the area.
The walk was proposed as the inaugural event of the Climate and Territory working group, created within Univaq to stimulate greater knowledge of the local climate, promote the discovery or recovery of geographical elements, of the productive and economic fabric, of development social in some way linked or dependent on climatic factors.
During the guided trekking on the Tratturo Magno, the ancient route used for transhumance from Abruzzo to Puglia, the University professors alternated their interventions on the history and archeology of the territory, geology, botany and the urban planning situation which, as we read on the Univaq social channels “have allowed us to look at that same landscape with a more aware, profound and transversal gaze”. About eight kilometers to cover on foot, starting from the Vestina city of Peltuinum. After a short visit to the archaeological site, the group reached the church of Santa Maria de’ Centurelli. Along the way, some teachers from the University of L’Aquila illustrated the specificities of the Tratturo Magno and the Piana di Navelli, at the center of some departmental research projects.
After a brief visit to the church, the hikers reached the town of Civitaretenga, a hamlet of the municipality of Navelli (L’Aquila), visiting the Saffron Museum, whose cultivation is closely linked to local climatic factors. The excursion ended with a free tasting based on typical products of the area. The walk was also open to disabled people with the help of special dirt wheelchairs (joelette). The volume ‘The pervasive urban diffusion in transhumance networks – A methodological approach for the management and integrated planning of the Abruzzo sheep track network’ by Francesco Zullo (Arachne, 2023)
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