Mount Fumaiolo ( it, Monte Fumaiolo) is a
mountain
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of the
northern Apennines range of
Italy
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located in the southernmost corner of the
Emilia-Romagna
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region, c. 70 km from the town of
Cesena
Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. ...
. It is at the border Emilia-Romagna and
Tuscany
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With an elevation of , Mount Fumaiolo overlooks the villages of
Balze di Verghereto,
Bagno di Romagna and
Verghereto
Verghereto ( rgn, Vargaréd; Tuscan: (rare)) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about south of Forlì.
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, in
Romagna, and thanks to its extensive
fir and
beech forests, it is a well-appreciated tourist area of natural interest. It is most famous for being the
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of the
Tiber
The Tiber ( ; it, Tevere ; la, Tiberis) is the third-longest List of rivers of Italy, river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where ...
, as well as the river
Savio.
The Springs of the river Tiber
The source of the
river Tiber (''Tevere'' in Italian) originally consisted of two
springs a few meters away from each other on the slopes of Mount Fumaiolo. Although nowadays only one spring remains active, the area is still called "Le Vene del Tevere";
''vene'' is Italian for "veins" or "springs". The active spring is located in a beech forest at 1,268 meters above
sea level
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on the southern slopes of Mount Fumaiolo, near the village of
Balze di Verghereto in the
Emilia Romagna
Emilia-Romagna (, , both also ; ; egl, Emégglia-Rumâgna or ''Emîlia-Rumâgna''; rgn, Emélia-Rumâgna) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy, administrative regions of Italy, situated in the north of the country, comprising the historical regions ...
region. In 1927, under
Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, an antique
marble
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column from the Roman Forum was placed on the spot, with an inscription on it:
QUI NASCE IL FIUME SACRO AI DESTINI DI ROMA ("Here springs the river / sacred to the destinies of Rome"), to mark the association of the Fascist regime with the ancient Roman empire. A Roman
eagle
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stands on the top of the column, and three wolf heads, each holding a ring in its mouth, are visible on the sides.
In its first kilometers the Tiber runs through Emilia Romagna; then it enters
Valtiberina in Tuscany before crossing
Umbria
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and entering
Lazio
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to flow past Rome. After 405 kilometers, the Tiber pours its waters into the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the third-longest Italian river, after the
Po and the
Adige
The Adige (; german: Etsch ; vec, Àdexe ; rm, Adisch ; lld, Adesc; la, Athesis; grc, Ἄθεσις, Áthesis, or , ''Átagis'') is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the pro ...
, and the second in volume of water discharge, after the Po.
File:Sorgente-tevere-fumaiolo.jpg, The source of the Tiber
Image:Source of Tiber 2.JPG, The source of the Tiber (side view)
Image:Source of Tiber.JPG, Benito Mussolini's inscription
File:Tevere Fiume sacro.jpg, The inscription and ornaments
File:Colonna tevere.jpg, The eagle on the column
See also
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Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park
The Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna is a national park in Italy. Created in 1993, it covers an area of about , on the two sides of the Apennine watershed between Romagna and Tuscany, and is divided between th ...
References
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Mountains of the Apennines
Mountains of Emilia-Romagna
Tiber
One-thousanders of Italy