| Mount Terminillo | |
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| State | Italy |
|---|---|
| Region | Lazio |
| Territory | Rieti |
| Mountain range | Abruzzo Apennines |
| Height | 2,217.13 m a.s.l. |
Mount Terminillo is located in the Lazio.
To know
The entire massif falls within the territory of several municipalities of the Sabina: Rieti, Lioness, Micigliano, Mail, Cantalice, Poggio Bustone, Rivodutri is Morro Reatino.
Geographical notes
Mount Terminillo (Mons Tetricus for the ancient Romans) is a mountain massif, whose highest peak reaches 2217.13 m of altitude. Belonging to the group of the Reatini mountains ofAbruzzo Apennines, located 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome, until 1927 the mountain massif and most of the piedmont countries, excluded Poggio Bustone, Rivodutri is Morro Reatino, belonged to the province ofthe Eagle. The peak is the third highest in the Lazio, is located in the territory of the municipality of Lioness and it is a symbol of the whole Sabina Lazio.
When to go
The climate of the territory is typical of the Apennine areas of medium and high mountains. Snow accumulations in winter are good and long-lasting, especially on the northern side, which is cool and windy in summer.
Background
The Terminillo was launched for tourism in the thirties after a visit by Benito Mussolini who was "impressed by the beauty of the mountain massif". A wide road was thus built from Lisciano to Pian De 'Rosce, subsequently completed up to Terminillo (state road 4 bis del Terminillo), while in the 1920s the Terminillo could only be reached on foot or on horseback through paths. In the thirties the tourist boom began with the first equipped ski slopes. In 1940 the cable car was built, which still exists today.
From the fifties to the seventies Terminillo is the ski resort of reference for all of Central Italy. In this period it becomes a meeting point of the "Roma bene": political exponents of the cinema world stay there. The Terminillo, both for the exteriors and the interiors of the hotels, became the set for the filming of many films. Since the eighties and nineties, due to the lack of investments to renovate, modernize and expand the ski lifts, Terminillo lives a crisis also due to the increasingly strong competition from Abruzzo stations, which suddenly became closer to Rome after the construction of the A24 motorway.
In the last 20 years the facilities have been reduced, but the Lazio Region has allocated 20 million euros for the renewal and increase of the ski facilities, but the Region itself rejected the T.S.M. (Terminillo Stazione Montana) which had instead seen the consent of 100% of the municipalities of the area and which provided for both the modernization of the plants and the construction of new landscape routes and new shelters, as well as the union of the west side with the Leonessan one (east ). At present (February 2016) a dispute is underway between the proponents of the TSM project and the technicians of the Lazio Region to ensure that the project is approved, albeit partially modified.
The proximity to the capital has meant that it is colloquially referred to as "the mountain of the Romans": tourists from the capital often frequent its ski slopes; moreover, the name can also be explained by the fact that, unlike the other peaks over 2000 meters in the central Apennines, Terminillo is often visible from Rome, especially on clear winter days, when the entire snow-capped mountain appears.
Territories and tourist destinations
Monte Terminillo: full screen map.Urban centers
Other destinations
- Campoforogna - Ski station Terminillo
- Campo Stella - Ski resort in the territory of Lioness
How to get
By car
- The main access roads to Terminillo are the Terminillo regional road 4 bis (called via Terminillese), which begins in Rieti, and the provincial road 10 of the Saddle of Lioness, which begins in Lioness (closed since 2014 due to the danger of falling rocks). A third road begins at Micigliano but it is unpaved and generally inaccessible to vehicles.
- From Rome, Terni is L'Aquila you arrive at Terminillo by reaching Rieti (from Rome with the state road 4 Salaria, from Terni through the Rieti-Terni highway and from Aquila with the state road 17 passing through Antrodoco-Cittaducale), and then exit at the Nucleo Industriale junction and take the Terminillese road. From Ascoli Piceno instead it is preferable to reach Leonessa and take the provincial road 10 and the Saddle of Lioness.
On the train
As for public transport, Rieti it can be reached by train from Terni is L'Aquila, via the railway Terni-Sulmona, and from Rome by Cotral regional bus (which connects the bus terminus of the station of Rieti with the Roma Tiburtina or Fara Sabina station on the FL1 metro line). From the station of Rieti continue with the urban line 513 of the ASM Rieti. Since 2014 the Trenobus service allows you to reach the Terminillo from Terni with a single ticket, valid for the train and bus 513.
By bus
There ASM (Municipal Services Company) of Rieti allows you to reach Terminillo with the line 513, which connects the Rieti railway station with Pian de 'Valli. The line offers five trips a day in each direction (four on holidays) and has a travel time of 55 minutes; the ticket (€ 0.90 for a single journey) can be purchased in tobacconists or via the smartphone app Phonzie.
Another company is Cotral bus lines.
How to get around
During the summer the ASM runs a shuttle that connects the main towns of Mount Terminillo (Cinque Confini, piazzale La Malga, Rifugio Sebastiani, Campoforogna), with departure and return to Pian de 'Valli.
What see
What to do
- Ski. The massif is home to two ski resorts, one more famous and popular on the southern side which takes its name directly from the massif (Terminillo) and located in Campoforogna (1640 m a.s.l.), the other located on the opposite northern side (Leonessa-Campo Stella), geographically not connected to each other. Both stations have a potential catchment area covering theUmbria, all the Northern Lazio ed Oriental, with Rieti is Viterbo, and part of that central ie part of the province of Rome.
- The southern station of Terminillo is located 20 km from the city of Rieti with which it is connected through the state road 4 bis of Terminillo. It has 4 ski lifts located between 1500 and 2108 meters above sea level, 40 km of slopes dedicated to alpine skiing and 20 km of tracks dedicated to Nordic skiing, in addition to the presence of good accommodation facilities.
- Discovered by Mussolini and built in the Fascist period among the first of the Apennines, then very popular in the sixties and seventies, the locality suffered from the competition of the nearby stations ofAbruzzo in the eighties and nineties, failing to keep up with the rest of thecentral Italy, also because of the lack of a motorway connection.
- The historic cable car built in 1938 is still functioning, in the departure station there are the decorations made by the avant-garde painter Achille Dal Lago.
- In the two-year period 2005-2007, as part of a plan for the modernization of the facilities, new four-seater chairlifts were installed and an overall plan to extend the mileage of the slopes is envisaged, to complete the connection with the Vallonina and the ski lifts. Campo Stella.
- Unique in all of Central Italy is the lighting of the cross-country trails that can also be used in the middle of the night.
- Hiking. Terminillo also offers the possibility of alternative tourism development to skiing, starting from the landscape which, in particular in the eastern area, recalls the Venetian Dolomites. Numerous and varied walks. The presence of fauna and flora are relatively modest, given the important altitudes already starting from the town (1650 s.l.m.) and the ski lifts present have not had a significant environmental impact. To date, however, this mountain has constantly seen interest in sports such as trekking (sky race, mountain running race along the CAI paths) and thesummer and winter hiking, also connected to the religious and spiritual themes of the Way of Francis.
- Moreover, theMountain climbing and climbing are activities practiced on the Terminillo for over forty years. In fact, above all the bastions of the East and North walls offer the possibility of both summer and winter mountaineering ascents (just remember, by way of example, the popular climbing routes on the walls of the so-called Central Spur of the East wall and, as for winter ascents, the Chiaretti-Pietrostefani canal on the north-east side). Worthy of interest, especially in winter, is the Sassetelli Crest which winds north of the summit. In addition, the small mountain group immediately adjacent to the Valloni Mountains (Monte Elefante, highest peak 2,015 m) presents mountaineering and winter ski mountaineering itineraries of remarkable beauty and complexity: ice falls, mixed channels and classic routes with considerable exposure.
- Itineraries
- There are numerous walking routes that lead to the top or secondary peaks, from both sides. From the top the view sweeps 360 ° over the below plain of Rieti, on the whole Sabina up to the Roman countryside, on the mountains of upper Lazio (Monte Pozzoni), the Sibillini Mountains, the Monti della Laga, the Gran Sasso d'Italia, the Cicolano, the Mountains of the Duchess, the massif of Monte Velino and the Carseolani Mountains. Close to Saddle of Lioness at an altitude of 1820 m there is the CAI Angelo Sebastiani Refuge.
- There are also several possibilities for bicycle excursions both by road with the typical ascent to the Sella di Leonessa from both sides, southern and northern, and by MTB on the numerous dirt paths that the massif offers. Particularly highly suggestive is the dirt ascent from the eastern side along the typically mountain road that climbs up to the Saddle give her Gorges of the Velino through the municipality of Micigliano.
Shopping
Where to eat
- 1 Orsetto Bar restaurant, Provincial road 10 Campo Stella (adjacent to the ski slopes of Campo Stella), ☎ 39 0746 920019.
- 2 Roma Pizzeria Restaurant, Piazzale Pian De 'Valli, 18 (Terminillo locality), ☎ 39 0746 261056.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 [link not working]Terminillo Hotel, Via Vallonina (Campoforogna locality), ☎ 39 0746 261014.
- 2 Hotel La Lucciola, Via dei Ginepri, 27 (Terminillo locality), ☎ 39 0746 261138.
- 3 Togo Palace hotels, Piazzalele Zamboni, 10 (Terminillo locality), ☎ 39 0746 261274.
- 4 Small hut hotel, Via Dei Licheni 39, ☎ 39 0746 261123.
- 5 [link not working]Il Bucaneve Hotel, Via degli Appennini, 76, ☎ 39 392 1722125.
- 6 Hotel Sporting Tre Cime Terminillo, Via dell'Anello, 3, ☎ 39 339 2549128.
High prices
- 7 Hotel Cristallo Terminillo, Via dei Cerri, 9 (Terminillo locality), ☎ 39 0746 261075. Four stars
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
- Rieti - Considered by the authors of the classical age the geographical center of Italy (Umbilicus Italiae) was founded at the beginning of the Iron Age and became an important city of the Sabines; still today its territory is identified as "Sabina".
- Lioness
Itineraries
- Franciscan sanctuaries in the Rieti plain - A path of nature, faith and art in the Sabina crossed by San Francesco, to visit the four Sanctuaries of the Holy Valley: Greccio, Poggio Bustone, The Forest, Fonte Colombo.
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