Clitunno Springs

Mystical landscape in Umbria (Italy). For their rare beauty, the Clitunno springs were a source of inspiration, since ancient times, for painters, poets and writers. Virgil reported the legend of the oxen that, immersing themselves in the waters of the river, would become even pure white. Pliny the Younger wrote an epistle recalling the sacredness of the river, its navigability, the division between a non-bathing part (the Sources) and a bathing one. Also the emperor Caligola was a frequenter of the "Sacra Clitumnalia", which was the spring festivities in honor of the god Clitunno, that was believed to reside in the depths of the waters. This enchanted place has also been admired in more r...View all