Fonte delle Mattinate – Colfiorito loop from Cesi

Serravalle Di Chienti

Fonte delle Mattinate – Colfiorito loop from Cesi

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Fonte delle Mattinate – Colfiorito loop from Cesi

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17.0km

90m

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Easy road ride. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

Last updated: November 4, 2026

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Parco Regionale di Colfiorito

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8.08 km

Botte del Varano Roman Hydraulic Tunnel

Highlight • Monument

In the Fonte delle Mattinate area in Serravalle di Chienti, during the works at the Renaissance Botte del Varano, a very notable hydraulic work from the Roman era was identified and almost completely explored, in use from the Republican period until the late Empire, built in same purpose two millennia ago.

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8.77 km

Fonte delle Mattinate

Highlight • Natural Monument

The plestino or "del Casone" plateau, occupied since the end of the Pliocene by a large lake that extended to the adjacent floors (Annifo, Collecroce, Arvello and Popola), has always been a place of convergence and branching off of numerous the Apennine ridge crosswise meet those that connect the Adriatic area to the Tyrrhenian area across the Umbrian plain. It is a vast depression of karst-tectonic origin already frequented in the Paleolithic, about 32,000 years ago, by the first hunter-gatherer sapiens for at least 6 millennia with short, but repeated phases of occupation. The site, excavated in 1999 near Fonte delle Mattinate, has returned flint artefacts, such as blades and lamellae, burins and scrapers, which testify how the settlement, located on the banks of a body of water, was seasonally a place of procurement and processing of lithic tools and, at the same time, a hunting area for large mammals.

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13.3 km

Colfiorito

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A beautiful town on the border with Abruzzo.

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16.8 km

Cesi

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From Colfiorito you take the road that goes towards the Apennines in the direction of Foligno and you come across this small hamlet. Fresh, green, peaceful. How wonderful!

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