Leaving the beautiful Spoleto on the right, and beyond the long tunnel (a good 4 km), I find myself in a panorama capable, every time, of impressing me: the Nera Valley has preserved that suspended atmosphere and that bursting nature that are characteristic of those territories where time seems to have stopped.
The road runs alongside the river, between steep mountains covered with rich vegetation, interrupted at times by the presence of villages perched on high ground or wonderful Benedictine abbeys.
Yet it is not only this that I love about the Valnerina: it is all those hidden and little-known places, which I sometimes have the opportunity to let others discover and which I like to revisit and relive.
San Pietro in Valle is one of the first treasures of this area to come to mind: a Benedictine abbey of Lombard foundation that has a truly unique and ancient fresco cycle with stories from the Old and New Testaments, all in a simply breathtaking landscape.
Then there is Vallo di Nera, high above, a small village overlooking the valley that preserves in its most beautiful church a unique testimony to a choral event that involved Christendom in the late 14th century: thousands of pilgrims dressed in white who gathered from all over Europe to plead for the election of a single pope.
There are really so many surprises that this area can give you!
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