Paths of the Park of the Conero
The Pass of the Wolf
The Park of the Conero is crossed from numerous paths, normaly easy to go through.
Famous paths, as the cross from Sirolo to the top of the mount and from here to
Portonovo (with very beautif panoramas), or as the path of
the Pass of the Wolf from Sirolo to a wonderful panoramic
point (in the pass) and from here to the "Due Sorelle" (Two Sisters).
A lot of others are also interesting.
For instance: near Massignano, at the beginning of a
path that go up to the Conero, a type-layer of
geologic importance is met. Probably here it has been found the test that the extinction of the dinosauri,
65 million years ago, was due to the fall of a gigantic meteorite in
America. Some trusts in zone help to decipher the phenomenon
An other path leads to the prehistoric graffiti
, (it could be the rappresentation of the
passage of a comet near the constellation of Orion, and therefore probably
they were made for magical-divinatorie reasons).
Other paths lead to
the cove of Mortarolo , already lived in
prehistoric age, to the cove-hermitage of S. Benedetto
, the roman coves (hollow of stones dug
in the cliff).
Any of these coves is accompanied from legends
(would be along to narrete here) and this renders them still evocative.
One path leads to the so-called " Hole of the Devil
", the income of a series of galleries, probably they were hydraulic
works of uncertain age, perhaps Roman and/or preRoman, that they would
have carried waters of the Conero to Ancona an to Numana. The same path is near the Gradine , than, as
someone says, would derive its name from the Slavic voice Grad, (like
in Italy: Grado, Gradisca, Gradara and in the east Europe many famous towns). Well, these hills that
have conserved the name Gradine, as also other hills of the zone
that has it lost, would have been lived as fortified villages in the
protohistory (approximately in 12th-11th centuries b.C.).
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