() is a massif in the Abruzzo Apennines, Central Italy. It includes the peaks of Monte d'Aria (), Monte Cimarani () and Monte San Felice (). Since 1999 the area, falling within the municipal territory of

Avezzano Avezzano ( or ; nap, Avezzàne, label=Neapolitan language, Marsicano ) is a city and ''comune'' with a population of 40,819 inhabitants, situated in the Abruzzo region, province of L'Aquila, Italy. It is the second most populous municipality in th ...

( Province of L'Aquila), has been included in the Riserva Naturale di Monte Salviano.

Description

Monte Salviano e il santuario della Madonna di Pietraquaria dalla via dei Marsi

The Salviano mountain range is situated along the watershed between the

Fucino The Fucine Lake ( it, Lago Fucino or ) was a large endorheic lake in western Abruzzo, central Italy, stretching from Avezzano in the northwest to Ortucchio in the southeast, and touching Trasacco in the southwest. Once the third largest lake in I ...

basin and the Piani Palentini, in Marsica. In 1993 a serious fire burnt down dozens of hectares of black pine in the pinewood planted by the prisoners of

Avezzano concentration camp Avezzano concentration camp was an Italian assembly and detention camp set up in 1916 in the Abruzzo city of the same name during World War I, immediately after the 1915 Marsica earthquake that almost completely destroyed it decimating the popul ...

in 1916. Ecological restoration, carried out through the reforestation of native and indigenous species, favoured the process of spontaneous regeneration consolidating the mountain area ecosystem. Since 1999, the Avezzano side entirely falls into the Riserva Naturale di Monte Salviano, a former peri-urban park. In 2005 Monte Salviano was indicated among Abruzzo

sites of community importance A Site of Community Importance (SCI) is defined in the European Commission Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) as a site which, in the biogeographical region or regions to which it belongs, contributes significantly to the maintenance or restoration at ...

Etymology

There are two hypotheses about the origin of the name "Salviano": the first links the

toponym Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of '' toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

to the remarkable presence of ''

Salvia officinalis ''Salvia officinalis'', the common sage or just sage, is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers. It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae and native to the Mediterranean region, thoug ...

'' on the mountain; the other traces it back to the finding of some epigraphs explicitly referring to the gens Salvia in the Marsican area.

View from the peak

From the Monte Salviano peak it is possible to admire the

Monte Velino Monte Velino is a mountain (2,487 m) in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy, part of the Abruzzo Apennines. Located nearby the boundary with Lazio, between the Fucino plain and the Aterno, Salto and Velino rivers' valleys, ...

peaks in the north, the Piani Palentini in the west, and the

basin, surrounded by the Monti Marsicani, in the east.

Cartography

* Trail network of the Riserva Naturale di Monte Salviano
available on line
* Italian official cartography of the

Istituto Geografico Militare The ''Istituto Geografico Militare'' (IGM), or Military Geographic Institute, is an Italian public organization, dependent on the Italian Army general staff (''Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito''). It is the national mapping agency for Italy. Overvie ...

in a scale 1:25.000 and 1:100.000
available on line

References

External links

* {{Citation, url=http://riservamontesalviano.it/, title=Nature reserve official website, website=riservamontesalviano.it, publisher=Riserva Naturale Monte Salviano, accessdate=7 October 2018, language=it. Avezzano Salviano Salviano Natura 2000 in Italy