Historical and cultural
values
The Park area includes three zones well geographically
delimited, the Rocks Upland, the medium Aterno
Valley, and the Subequana Valley, and the northern
part of the Fucino Valley, which historically
and culturally present distinct characteristics
which integrates and reinforce during centuries.
In the complex, the entire area has been characterized
by man presence: Via Valeria and Via Claudia Nuova;
during Middle-age, with small aggregation installation,
in order to defend itself from some invasions,
it had the development of fortification centres,
castles and rocks; characteristic of the Aterno
Valley are the towers which allowed the visual
communication the urban centres through all the
Aquila Valley to Sulmona. Very important is the
cultural reservoir of the Aterno Valley and of
the Subequana Valley, rich of historical, architectural,
and cultural testimonies represented by what remains,
in more or less good conditions, of the antique
centres and installations and of the still living
religious and cultural manifestations.
The subsistence economy since the Neolithic:
during roman epoch it has been interested by the
crossing installation of two important street
net of the zone derived by the exploitation of
the environmental systems effectuated by the agricultural
sylvan pastoral populations. Characteristic uses
of the territory, by the local populations, are:
the Neviera of the Sirente, in 2000 metres altitude
in one of the canals of the northern versant,
which constitutes a profitable source to the residents
of Secinaro and Galiano Aterno, through the extraction
of “Salme” (Ice blocks) carried on
a mule, protected by sacks and covered with leafs
and chaff powder to avoid its melting and sent
to Puglia or even to Rome. With activity, and
their knowledge, autodidact, of wood combustion
processes, allowed the residents to sale the vegetal
coal into the fairs and into the markets; or altitude
villages, such as Pagliare di Tione, Pagliare
di Fontecchio, and Pagliare di Fagnano, testimonies
of the vertical transhumance, when, during good
season, people of small villages of valley floor
would transfer in altitude zones with cattle with
the intention of taking advantage of the abundant
pastures and practicing a small subsistence agriculture.
The territory reading revels the human’s
capacity of living together with complex and difficult
environment and to allow the coexistence of the
wonderful natural patrimony.
From: Natural
Resources in the Sirente Velino Park
Synthesis: Park Archive Documentation
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