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 Myths and legends make full of mystery the Sibillini Mounts (Italian Monti Sibillini), between the Italian regions of Marche and Umbria,.
The very name of the mountain range comes from the most evocative of these popular stories, set in the cave of the Sibyl that, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, radiates mystery on the village of Montemonaco.
Hollow at 2173 m above the sea level, the cave of the Sibyl opens near the top of an atypic basalt cliffs that, 10 m high, is like a crown for the homonymous Mount.
Inhabited since prehistoric times, this summit of the Marche Appennino would have hidden in its bowels the kingdom of the sorceress Sibyl that, rebel against God, would have been ordered to live in the depths of the mountains.
Beautiful and kind for someone, so as to receive the nickname of fairy, she was awful and terrible for others, so that in some folk tales she is embodied in the furious sorceress Alcina of the Orlando furioso.
She would have been instead the Cumaean Sibyl, here exiled from the Campania, according to others.
With its prophecies and the most profane weapons of seduction, the prophetess attracted to herself many knight errants, condemning them after a year to eternal damnation.
Sibyl certainly fascinated the Tuscan troubadour Andrea from Barberino that in 1410, bore the legend on the pages of his romance of chivalry The Guerrin Meschino, then imitated by the French knight errant Antoine De la Sale in Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille (The Paradise of Queen Sibyl).
All the peole described the cave as a huge hall square from which a narrow tunnel started to fall into in the bowels of the earth.
In many would have attempted the descent and, frightened, they would have fled, perhaps chased by Necromancers, wizards, demons...
In 1953 the last expedition.
Then a landslide, caused by an attempt to enlarge the cavity with explosives, blocked the entrance to the cave and takes forever closed within itself the enigma of Sybil...
What remains unchanged is the charm of Sibillini Mounts that, since 1993 hosts a national park, and that continue to radiate that special light that, in winter, brought the poet Giacomo Leopardi to define them the Blue Mountains.
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