Capranica Prenestina

Chestnut woods cover the slopes around Capranica Prenestina, scattered with old stone drying huts once used for mosciarella, the local dried chestnut. The small village lies on the Monti Prenestini east of Rome, among karst uplands, beech woods and high pastures. Its territory reaches up to Guadagnolo, Lazio's highest hamlet, and the Mentorella sanctuary, one of the oldest Marian shrines in Italy.

Highlights

• Santuario della Mentorella, one of Italy's oldest Marian shrines (IT)
• Guadagnolo, the highest inhabited hamlet in Lazio (IT)
• Mosciarella prenestina, chestnuts dried in old stone huts in the woods
• Meadows, woods and rocks of Monte Guadagnolo, a protected Natura 2000 site

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