Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna

Dante's valley and waterfall

• Trail Conditions: On foot
• Interest: Flora, Geology

• Duration: 2 hour/s 30 minutes
• Length: 9 km
• Difference in height: Uphill 250m
• Minimum Altitude: 535m
• Maximum Altitude: 735m
• Recommended Period: from April to June, from September to November

Acquacheta has become famous for its spectacular waterfall. However, this is not the only interesting aspect of the path: it leads us in fact to the Piana dei Romiti, where the village of the Romiti, now reduced to a few ruins, is placed on a rocky spur. In this location stood the hermitage of the Abbey of S. Benedetto in Alpe, founded in 986 by San Romualdo from Ravenna, founder of the Hermitage of Camaldoli.
It was instead 1302 when Dante, exiled from Florence and directed to Forlì, stopped at Romiti with the Monks. The poet admired the waterfall and used it as a comparison for the jump of the Phlegeton in the 16th round of Hell.

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