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I write this post with a special thought for those who like to especially walks in remote areas and abandoned, where the evidence of human presence, now passed since time immemorial, are gradually but surely overwhelmed by a lush and luxuriant, finally free to develop without restrictions and constraints ...

The arched entrance to the ancient village,

Etruscan site in the way of access.

We are not in some wilderness of the Far West, nor in an apocalyptic scenario of abandonment, but to just twenty miles from Rome, near the settlement of Santa Maria di Galeria . It 'a path like many others, can be reached from Via S. Maria di Galeria, that our adventure begins ...

Deeper inside, in fact, follow una strada battuta, dapprima in buone condizioni (fino a qualche anno fa non c’era alcun cancello che ne bloccasse l’accesso in macchina dalla via principale), che a un certo punto si inoltra nel bosco mediante due sentieri paralleli, il primo, molto più bello, celato fra gli alberi e al fresco, l’altro, più largo, che un tempo fungeva da stradina di accesso per le macchine, quando ancora la strada di accesso era aperta. Entrambi i sentieri conducono a una piccola radura (l’ex parcheggio), dalla quale si dipanano due strade, la prima è l’antica via etrusca risalente a circa 3000 anni fa, che si inerpica sulla collina e sale fino al centro abitato. Si tratta della via di accesso principale, sulla quale si aprono due archi di ingresso alla città e dalla quale si accede a quello che fu un tempo il cuore, il centro, del borgo stesso e che, ora, ospita i resti degli edifici più alti e meglio conservati. 

E' qui che hanno inizio gli edifici

L’altro sentiero porta giù, verso la cascatella del fiume Arrone, che scorre ai margini dell’antico borgo, e consente di raggiungere la parte bassa dell’insediamento, nella quale resiste ancora il vecchio sull'Arrone bridge and where you can access a variety of late-medieval houses and tunnels of the oldest building on both banks of the River. I note that this second path is almost invisible from the clearing of access, as covered by brambles, but the road is reopened as we approach the bridge and the ruins. In our case, despite being informed of the existence of this second path, we discovered after getting off the river from the upper part of the city.

The place is very impressive, Galeria is an ancient settlement, is believed to date back to the Etruscans, who named it Careia. In Roman times, until the Renaissance, was the scene of vicissitudes, Norman and Saracen invasions in dispute for its possession between the noble families of the area.

It is said that even entertained the Emperor Charles V, but, Since 1500, the city came to meet him at a slow but inexorable decline, exacerbated by the presence of the malaria that infested the Roman Agro since 1700. The last inhabitants of the city, already been reduced to ruins, abandoned it in 1809 to found the settlement of S. Maria di Galeria, about 4 km further north and away from the flooding of the river Arrone.

Photo to the right and Below: The bell tower of St. Andrew's Church, the Church's most important gallery, consecrated in 1204. In 1774 the clock was installed of which still remain traces, which was moved to nearby St. Maria in Galeria in 1822. This is the city's tallest building, the one that emerges still the wood, indicating the presence of the dead city.

Since then, the dead city was engulfed by a thick forest and its only inhabitants are a wide variety of plants and forest animals such as foxes, porcupines, wild boars ...

If, on the one hand, the state of neglect gives the town a unique charm, it is also important to note that if in the near future will not be undertaken restoration work or protection, the buildings still standing will continue inexorably to crumble (the accomplice unstable ground on which it is built tuff) and this incredible testimony of our past could go irretrievably lost.

The square, urban and social center of Gallery, housed major services: the oven, the house of dance, the Governor's house, the entrance to the castle and a church.

Today the ruins scattered in the dense vegetation, express, besides its romantic ruins in the woods, the intermingling between architectural elements and aspects nature.

The indivisible nature of its natural and cultural heritage of the area determines the existence of a "habitat destruction", where you can see the monumental sites and the appropriation of space by nature. The particularity of the place, in fact, is not so much in the historical and artistic features of the architectural complex as the harmony which is made in the link between architecture and landscape. For this gallery has been visited by many artists and travelers of the nineteenth century than with the fixed design picturesque aspects of the architectural complex, or represented the spectacle of nature and landscape.

Careiae the ancient, the settlement probably of Etruscan origin remains the old road layout leading to the village, in some places, like this one, situated in the loose volcanic formations. Through this work, typically Etruscan, is now possible to observe geological formations, represented by the products in this area Sabatini volcanic apparatus (lavas, tuffs and tuffs lithoid stratified inconsistent). Here is wet almost all year and this allows the growth of mosses and ferns on the rocks.

Curiosity

The ghost senz'affanni "

ancient local legend tells the story of a ghost minstrel named" Senz'affanni. Died about three hundred years ago, returns on time every year, among the ancient walls of the gallery singing and playing for his beloved woman riding a beautiful white horse. But the legend seems to have taken effect among those who claim to hear the sound of hooves and a sound like a moan coming from the valley below the ancient settlement. The same people claim to have heard especially during the winter floods of the River Arrochar. Who does not believe in the presence of ghost sostiene che il rumore che si ode, accompagnato da un sibilo simile ad un lamento, altro non è che lo scorrere impetuoso del Torrente Arrone sulle rocce nel punto in cui questo attraversa alcune cavità sotto il borgo.

Le origini del Borgo di Galeria si perdono nelle nebbie del tempo; il luogo dove oggi sorge solitaria e fascinosa, fu probabilmente abitato già da epoche remotissime vista la sua posizione strategica estremamente favorevole.
Le fonti bibliografiche utilizzate per ricostruire la storia di Galeria sono confuse e contraddittorie. Alcuni autori attribuiscono l'origine del nome all'antica tribù Latin for "Gallery", which you do not know the area of \u200b\u200bderivation.
Some sources attribute the birth site of the Etruscan civilization, when the village that once stood here was called "Careia", a center of medium size, located on the boundary of the shaft of the river Arrochar, territories of Veii and Cerveteri .