Experience: Folklore, Mines, Landscapes
Route: outdoor, out-and-back
Km: 5,7 (one way only)
Duration: 3 h (one way only)
Difficulty: easy
Terrain: asphalt and dirt
Route suitable: on foot
Ascent / Elevation gain: 279
The itinerary starts at the Cemetery of the Carusi, where time seems to have stopped and the lives it holds feel crystallized. This place takes us back to a not-so-distant past in which survival was a struggle against darkness and hard rock from an early age, in bleak, desolate places where even breathing was an exhausting, crushing labor. From here, head along the SP202 toward Caltanissetta and turn left onto a semi-paved path. The first mine you encounter is Juncio Tumminelli (formerly Testasecca), followed by the Juncio–Santa Teresa Mine. Staying on the path, after about 770 m you reach the Saponaro Mine, and after roughly another 1.5 km you skirt the Stretto Mine. The route ends near a farmhouse.
#History
#Churches
#Landscapes
#Villas and Palaces
#Nature