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There are places where, also found for the first time, you feel something. Do you feel that there is past history. The Furlo Gorge, in the province of Pesaro Urbino, is one of these places. Here for centuries, indeed millennia, man has always been committed to shaping the mountains to his goal. Sometimes in a grand and in harmony with nature, sometimes irremediably sullying the environment. In a future post I hope to speak to the whole history that permeates the Furlo Gorge, but in this space I will concentrate on the Tunnel Vespasian.
The "monumental" work, signed and dated with an inscription in the box of rock above the entrance, was completed in 76 AD by Emperor Flavius \u200b\u200bVespasian. The tunnel has finally resolved the consular most challenging and difficult passage of the entire gorge. It 's the point where a spur of rock overlooking Mount Pietralata extended to below the river bed. The gallery, entirely carved into the rock, has a length of 38 m and a width of more than 5 m, although not regularly settled. The height is the parameter that has varied over time, but only for the work of a later period in the underlying road surface. Even today, the center of the time, more than 5 m. Here, too, slaves, directed by Roman craftsmen, who worked with his usual skill, only to bat and strikes the chisel, like any craftsman of every age and latitude to cope with the stone or marble. At the time, and for its entire length the tunnel is crossed by a crack in the rock during the winter months, please leave us filter more or less abundant quantities of water. Unfortunately, the original entrance to the south-west was literally abbruttito or if you want desecrated in the early twentieth century by a short stretch of "railway tunnel," the rage in those days, albeit with laudable purpose of protection from falling rocks.
Soon there will also speak of tunnel called "Etruscan gallery.
The "monumental" work, signed and dated with an inscription in the box of rock above the entrance, was completed in 76 AD by Emperor Flavius \u200b\u200bVespasian. The tunnel has finally resolved the consular most challenging and difficult passage of the entire gorge. It 's the point where a spur of rock overlooking Mount Pietralata extended to below the river bed. The gallery, entirely carved into the rock, has a length of 38 m and a width of more than 5 m, although not regularly settled. The height is the parameter that has varied over time, but only for the work of a later period in the underlying road surface. Even today, the center of the time, more than 5 m. Here, too, slaves, directed by Roman craftsmen, who worked with his usual skill, only to bat and strikes the chisel, like any craftsman of every age and latitude to cope with the stone or marble. At the time, and for its entire length the tunnel is crossed by a crack in the rock during the winter months, please leave us filter more or less abundant quantities of water. Unfortunately, the original entrance to the south-west was literally abbruttito or if you want desecrated in the early twentieth century by a short stretch of "railway tunnel," the rage in those days, albeit with laudable purpose of protection from falling rocks.
Soon there will also speak of tunnel called "Etruscan gallery.
Sources: Throat Furlo. Andrea Pellegrini, Elena Ferretti Roberto Fiorani.Arti Graphic Stibu. Urbania. 2003.
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