San Marino. The little treasures of the “Tanaccia” sanctuary
A fascinating and hidden place, a destination for school visits and which deserves to be known by the citizens
It has now been established that a long series of settlements once inhabited the preennine and central-northern Apennines, since the fifth century BC. A sort of “backbone” of the Etruscan civilizations which, starting from Lazio,
it is developed throughout Tuscany and, through Emilia Romagna towards Liguria. The origin of the very suggestive thesis of the existence of an ancient road that has traveled our territories since prehistoric times, and which starting from the Covignano hill in Rimini, through San Marino then reaches the Tyrrhenian Sea, is due to prof . Dario Giorgetti, of the University of Parma, who in “Illustrated History of the Republic of San Marino” writes: “It could be plausible to imagine that several areas around the Titan, such as open spaces and directly leaded shelters under the highest hopers, possess having been occupied by Neolithic who exploited the characteristic and reliable stronghold position in control of the most frequented routes towards the interior and towards the quarries of the Apennines
Tuscan”. (…)
Taken from the information of San Marino