Cava Chiampano GEOSITE
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Title
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Cava Chiampano GEOSITE
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Description
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quarries on the mountain ridges of the left slope provided blocks of valuable material from which skilled stonemasons ('picapere') extracted lintels, windowsills, columns, capitals, and ashlars used for monuments, palaces, bridges, etc.
This flourishing activity ceased in the 1970s with the closure of the large Chiampano quarry, which has now been transformed into a popular rock gymnasium exploiting roofs and ledges developed in the schistosity planes and fracturing systems.
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Lithology
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orthogneiss
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Landform shape
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Roche mountonnee
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Interest
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Geomining
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Sport
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This site represent the extractive activities in the valley. Today is used as a climbing wall.