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What to do in Urbania:the mummies cemetery!

A plethora of chills! Today, we suggest, among the things to do absolutely to Urbania, the visit to the Church of the Dead, where 18 mummified bodies are naturally visited and studied by curious people all over the world!

Urbania mummies:  a natural miracle


The Church of the Dead, or Chapel Cola until 1836, in Urbania, still houses the so-called cemetery of mummies. Discovered two centuries ago, the bodies of 12 men and 6 women still challenge the laws of nature today. This is a phenomenon of natural mummification, but many years ago they were considered fairy bodies for the exceptional state of conservation.

This condition of integrity, including internal organs and apparatus, is due to the climatic and geologic conformation of Urbania that produced a dehydration of the tissues thanks to the constant ventilation, to the subsequent protection from natural molds.

Urbania’s mummy cemetery and the  relative register


Thanks to the reports of the “Brotherhood of Good Death”, recorded by the church, each one is able to know personal history: there is a deceased young woman who has been caesarean, a young stabbed, or the mummy of the unfortunate who was buried alive in a state of apparent death.

Unfortunately, the finds have never been subjected to carbon dating.

They are currently exposed behind the crypt of the main altar of the church and are visible to the public.

There are still many questions that revolve around these mummies, so much to arouse interest and attract tourists from all over the world.

Credits image highlights: urban-casterdurante.it

Below we present a Rai Uno service dedicated to the mummies custodian that made it accessible to the public: Giovanni Maestrini.

(tel. 349 8195469)

 

Along the climbs that lead to the summit of Mount Carpegna, the preferred training place of the great and unlucky champion

Just a few miles from us, those who love the road bike can retrace a famous and beautiful circuit as difficult as Marco Pantani loved so much. Along the climbs that lead to the summit of Mount Carpegna, the preferred training place of the great and unlucky champion.

Numerous scripts dedicated to him in every corner of the climb: a nostalgic and exciting touch that remains printed in the heart.

 

Svevo Pedivella Cippo Carpegna Pantani

Svevo Pedivella Cippo Carpegna Pantani

Image Credits: Svevo Pedivella

Carpegna is enough for me!” We discover together the most popular climb by champion Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani was very  appreciated our area; and he loved to train himself on Mount Carpegna.

The route, cyclists know, is a very complex cocktail of fatigue and endurance: 115km and a difference of 1,800 meters on roads that span over marvelous panoramas.
Marco Pantani traveled through these streets made famous by his phrase “Il Carpegna just enough” because he felt it was superfluous to climb the Dolomites for the workouts: the climbs of Carpegna were more than sufficient to prepare his countless victories.

Among the routes reported by our brochure for cyclists, the first came to our minds could only be that dedicated to the great champion. Moreover, the Cippo di Carpegna is easily reachable from our hotel (less than 30 kilometers away).

 

Panteni cippo

 

The Pantani Day and the foundation Marco Pantani Onlus

Marco Pantani is still alive in our memory.

There are many initiatives that remind you of it (on the site of your foundation you find all the initiatives dedicated to him).

The PANTANI DAY was born 5 years ago by an idea of Evelina Zanda, referent of the ASD Funtos Bike and Luca Demozzi, a renowned instructor in Trentino. Exposed the project at Funtos Bike, he immediately received his consent and from that day became an annual stage in the official journal of the Marco Pantani ONLUS Foundation.

The first ever to climb on the stage and to make the first hour as an instructor in the first PANTANI DAY in the far 2013, was Marco Della Vedova, former professional cyclist who had the honor to race in the Mercatone One team together with Marco Pantani.