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View of Ascoli Piceno – Cave of Blessed Corrado loop from Ascoli Piceno

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Ascoli Piceno

View of Ascoli Piceno – Cave of Blessed Corrado loop from Ascoli Piceno

Hard

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View of Ascoli Piceno – Cave of Blessed Corrado loop from Ascoli Piceno

07:42

22.8km

1,150m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 20, 2026

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Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga

Montagna dei Fiori

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718 m

View of Ascoli Piceno

Highlight • Viewpoint

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3.11 km

Church of San Bartolomeo alle Piagge

Highlight • Religious Site

The small church of San Bartolomeo, from 1474, has a rectangular plan and a single nave, with a double-pitched roof, a bell tower with a four-pitched roof and a small cross at the top. The portal of late-Gothic lines is surmounted by a mighty architrave that rests on two reversed-leaf brackets and small diamond points with the Sgariglia coat of arms in the center, as it was owned by the noble Ascoli family.

(c) fondoambiente.it/luoghi/chiesa-di-san-bartolomeo-alle-piagge

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4.10 km

San Marco Hermitage (Eremo di San Marco)

Highlight • Religious Site

From the imposing chestnut forest, the main path leads to a clearing located on a huge travertine spur, overlooking the forest. On the rock face, you can see, at the top right, the fascinating structure of the Hermitage of San Marco, a natural cavity closed by a church-shaped building with a bell tower and connected to the path by a stone staircase. The wall, in Romanesque style, is made of ashlar stones and has a single-lancet window and five double-lancet windows.

In ancient times, the building housed a convent founded by Cistercian monks at the beginning of the 13th century and consists of two overlapping rooms, connected by a staircase resting on the rock. It is a very “poor” construction, which recalls the Benedictine monastic rule.
Inside the Hermitage, it is still possible to find traces of the primitive frescoes painted by the monks on the walls and on the vault of the lower room. On the ceiling of the cave, the splendid “tapestry” of maidenhair fern is noteworthy.

The Hermitage of San Marco has been restored and brought back to its maximum splendor. It retains its evocative power that attracts tourists and travelers, lovers of history and nature.
(c) visitascoli.it/esperienze/colle-san-marco-meta-di-eremiti-nel-corso-dei-secoli

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14.2 km

Margherita Cave

Highlight • Cave

18.7 km

Cave of Blessed Corrado

Highlight • Cave

There is an artificial quarry here. I take its name from the Franciscan Beato Corrado, who used this quarry as a hermitage. According to legend he was a priest in Libya, and later a lecturer in Paris. He had decided to retire here to meditate and pray and spend his last days here (as a saint).

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18.9 km

Devil's Finger

Highlight • Natural Monument

Imposing travertine spur immersed in the woods of Colle San Marco. It owes its name to its iconic shape, which resembles a gigantic index finger pointing to the sky. An ancient place of esoteric rites linked to the figure of Cecco d’Ascoli, today it is a famous rock climbing gym for bouldering and an unmissable panoramic viewpoint along the path leading to the Hermitage of San Marco.

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22.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

15.0 km

2.95 km

2.18 km

1.62 km

870 m

155 m

Surfaces

11.8 km

5.31 km

2.40 km

1.56 km

976 m

421 m

334 m

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Highest point (1,100 m)

Lowest point (180 m)

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Sunday 12 July

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View of Ascoli Piceno – Cave of Blessed Corrado loop from Ascoli Piceno

View of Ascoli Piceno

Church of San Bartolomeo alle Piagge

San Marco Hermitage (Eremo di San Marco)

Margherita Cave

Cave of Blessed Corrado

Devil's Finger

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