Eremo di San Marco and Dito del Diavolo

You arrive at the Hermitage of San Marco from the hamlet of Piagge, situated at km. 5 away from the town. After visiting the village consisting of buildings of the sixteenth century now drawn near modern blocks of flats, you go beyond the little cemetery and walk along a path now rocky now grassy but always marked by indicative sprayed darts. After twenty minutes' walking among secular chestnuts and dark green firs, you arrive at a big travertine face. You go over a stepped bridge rising above a treed abyss and at last a partially hollowed into the rock little church shows you its whole grace. It's all that remains of a Cistercian convent, devoted to San Marco, of the thirteenth century. The order was done away with by the bishop Archeoni in 1387 and the whole property was handed down to the Sgariglias who had it as a feud and added the tower to. All the environment is cheering up, full of peace and mysticism.
Not far away from the Hermitage there is the so-called Dito del Diavolo - the Devil's finger - which is a natural travertine tower. Once upon a time convents and monasteries were under it, where men disillusioned by life went to gaze at stars.

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