Mount Salviano


Mount Salviano is a massif in the Abruzzi Apennines, Central Italy. It includes the peaks of Mount Aria, Mount Cimarani and Mount San Felice. Since 1999 the area, falling within the municipal territory of Avezzano, has been included in the Mount Salviano Nature Reserve.

Description

The Salviano mountain range is situated along the watershed between the Fucino basin and the Palentine Plains, in Marsica. In 1993 a serious fire burnt down dozens of hectares of black pine in the pinewood planted by the prisoners of Avezzano concentration camp in 1916. Ecological restoration, carried out through the reforestation of native and indigenous species, favoured the process of spontaneous regeneration consolidating the mountain area ecosystem.
Since 1999, the Avezzano side entirely falls into the Mount Salviano Nature Reserve, a former peri-urban park.
In 2005 Mount Salviano was indicated among Abruzzo sites of community importance.

Etymology

There are two hypotheses about the origin of the name "Salviano": the first links the to the remarkable presence of Salvia officinalis on the mountain; the other traces it back to the finding of some epigraphs explicitly referring to the gens Salvia in the Marsican area.

View from the peak

From the Mount Salviano peak it is possible to admire the Mount Velino peaks in the north, the Palentine Plains in the west, and the Fucino basin, surrounded by the Marsican Mountains, in the east.

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