The path, called in slang “Via Della Cupa” links the suburban area of the town to the bridge on the stream of Cortino, and its tracing is a very tortuous and sloping one, paved with stones of various sizes. It was exploited as a mule-track at the beginning of XX Century and used up to the 60s to get to the fields of wheat laying in the areas of Cortino and Piano dei Monti.
It was called “Via r’la Cupa” because of a folk-legend telling about some apparitions of a dark skinned baby. It’s a green route that gives visitors a beautiful landscape like another route, the not far Della Nocella Street that runs among the Mount Calvary, the Pascone and the neighbourhoods of the town.

 

The project provides for the restoration of the old paving (sel’c) characterized by squared stone-stairs and pebbles taken from the river, the retrieval of dry masonry, the strengthening of slopes with wooden fences and scions, the regulation of meteoric waters along nearby Nocella Street, the planting of autochthonal flowers, the use of wooden bulwarks along steep inclines and the carrying out of 3 stop areas equipped with wooden litterbin, benches and billboards acquainting visitors about vegetation of agricultural area around.

 
  G. PIUMELLI