A spectacular limestone outcrop, covered in lush vegetation, rising from the Sele Valley a short distance from the Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella in Materdomini.

The harmony of the landscape enclosed in one glance. It is the gift that an ancient route reserves for those who reach the top of Cairano’s cliff.

In the seventh book of the "Aeneid", Virgil had identified there one of the entrance gates to the Underworld, as Lake Averno on the Phlegraean coast.

They are among the most widespread and best preserved vestiges wherever the domination of Rome reached.