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Type:<\/strong> naturalistic, historical, and cultural
\nApproximate distance:<\/strong> 36 km<\/h3>\n

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This itinerary crosses the most mystical and identity-defining slope of Monte Amiata, where the natural dimension of the mountain intertwines with one of the most unique religious and social experiences in 19th-century Italy. It starts from Santa Fiora, gradually leaving the village to enter a compact wooded environment, made of silence, shade, and paths that invite slowing down.<\/h3>\n

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\ud83c\udf32 Monte Amiata Wildlife Park: the mountain as a space for connection<\/h4>\n

The first stop is the Monte Amiata Wildlife Park, an area that restores the most natural and lived-in side of the Amiata. Extensive woods, trails, and observation areas allow the mountain to be read as a place traversed and inhabited, frequented today for trekking and outdoor activities, but historically also perceived as a space of isolation, reflection, and retreat.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\uddfc Giurisdavidica Tower and David Lazzaretti: a vision born from the mountain<\/h4>\n

Climbing towards Monte Labbro, you encounter the Giurisdavidica Tower, a symbolic place linked to the figure of <\/span>David Lazzaretti (known as “Il Santo David”)<\/b>. Born in Arcidosso in the first half of the nineteenth century, Lazzaretti was a charismatic preacher and reformer who developed, right on these mountains, a spiritual and social vision based on justice, community, and moral renewal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The territory that welcomed him was densely inhabited: the nearby hamlet of <\/span>Zancona<\/b>, a small mountain village along the stream of the same name, was one of the centers where Lazzaretti spent a lot of time among the country people, gathering disciples and adherents to his cause. Almost all the priests of the Giurisdavidica community after his death came from here, and the archive of the followers was preserved in the hamlet, testifying to the importance of these places in the history of that movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcda Arcidosso: memory, community, and social history<\/h4>\n

The stop in Arcidosso allows for a deeper understanding of the Giurisdavidica story through the <\/span>David Lazzaretti Study Center<\/b>, which documents the movement not as a folkloric curiosity, but as a religious, social, and political phenomenon rooted in the context of 19th-century Amiata. Here the narrative is completed, restoring the link between landscape, rural poverty, collective aspirations, and social tensions that have crossed this territory.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=”50″][vc_column][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”sidebar_6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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