Rocchette and Rocchettine

The ensemble of these two stone towns, located in a wild and rugged landscape, is very attractive and worth a visit, even if it doesn't present particular elements of monumental and artistic character: they are two settlements, one of which is completely in ruins, which meet on two rocky spurs that rise in an especially picturesque valley.
This location is very isolated, making you breathe the air of centuries ago; if you leave the car out of sight, you'll have the sensation of having arrived by horse...
The town that is still inhabited is Rocchette, a town with a little more than two hundred inhabitants, looked after with great care and elegance, which you arrive at on foot from the valley, with the streets and narrow ways paved with local stone and pebbles from the river; sometimes the streets are dug into the live rock, characteristic of this zone.
On the spur in front of Rocchette are the ruins of Rocchettine, an ancient fortress that dominates the valley from above with cylindrical towers.
The castle can be reached by car from the street that goes down from the town of Rocchette and goes back up another ridge.