In Cavaliere, just 2 Km. south of Lorica, take the fork for the square of the ski lift and along the road you will meet a old farmhouse with drawbridge. Going back on the road we have traveled, we enter the highway 106 again towards the junction of Lent.
Here, shortly before the same crossroads, you will find the district of Ceci where an ancient hermitage built by Gioacchino da Fiore for the travelers is still intact of its time and owned by Baron Collice. On the portal of the same hermitage the symbol of the lily typical of Gioacchino da Fiore is still visible. Taking up the state road, you continue to walk along Lake Arvo and admire it in all its beauty and stop right on the opposite side of the lake where the gorgeous Lorica.
After 10 minutes you arrive at the village of Pino Collito now almost completely abandoned and a little later you can see another old farmhouse with drawbridge. A little further there will be the view of the dam of Lake Arvo, which was inaugurated by Umberto and Margherita di Savoia on 28 May 1932 in batted clay than with the its 280 mt. is the longest in Europe.
In the invaded, which has an area of 8 square kilometers, the waters of the Arvo River, Capalbo and several streams merge there. It is connected to Lake Ampollino through a tunnel duct 6,250 meters long. Continuing on the road you arrive at the junction of Rovale, a district in the municipality of San Giovanni in Fiore, inhabited by shepherds and farmers.
Returning to Lorica in the locality of Passo delle Cornacchie you will meet the campsite of Lake Arvo among the largest in Europe capable of hosting about 5,000 people and the headquarters of the Sila National Park.
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