The name comes from the slow and quiet route. It crosses the Romiti plain to plummet down the stratified rock steps.
The Acquacheta Waterfall, sung by Dante Alighieri in the 16th canto of the Inferno, is about a two-hour walk from San Benedetto in Alpe.
Here the water (in the winter and spring seasons) forms a beautiful waterfall of about 70 metres that leaves the visitor breathless.
As it was for the Ravenna-born San Romualdo who founded the hermitage of the Benedictine Abbey of San Benedetto here in the year 986, as it was for Dante who stayed here in exile, probably around 1302, beginning here, according to some critics, the writing of the Divine Comedy.
As it was for Boccaccio who came here to comment on Dante’s Inferno, and for Dino Campana in his wanderings towards the Falterona and Verna from Marradi, and finally for Diego Fabbri who came here several times as a young man.
How to get there: Walking along the Sentiero Natura (nature trail) that starts from S.Benedetto in Alpe and is about 5 km long.
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