Walk 9 - Travelling down the Nera

Following the river, we weiil discover landscapes of extraordinary beauty, yet you have to loook at them through the eyes of friendship and kindness, to discover and appreciate all the efforts of the men that had to live with river for ages, and took life from it. We can admire the stone bridges that cross the river; visit the mills that used its waters; wander around the narrow streets of the old towns, from Ceselli to Scheggino, from Castel San Felice to Piedipaterno and Borgo Cerreto; we will walk into the beautiful churches overlooking the area; we will feel the smell of nature in the vegetation along the river, and understand how deep the relationship between mankind, landscape and the river is, and how it has shaped life in this territory.

As if we did not see enough, we decided to look from above at what we have just seen; we will take the old road that runs across the Valnerina, from Borgo Cerreto to Grotti, passing through the Convent of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, the the villages Macchia, Meggiano and Paterno. The landscape now is more open, the villages seem to be guardwatching the gorges we just passed . And as we admire the landscape, we will once more be tempted by the fragrances of the cheese, lentils, emmer wheat and most of all the truffle, all produced in this area. We will be glad to end our journey in one of the restaurants of the area.