Monte delle Rose is a mountain in the

Monti Sicani The Monti Sicani are a mountain chain in the central-southern Sicily, southern Italy, included between the province of Agrigento, Agrigento and province of Palermo, Palermo. The name also indicates a series of ''comuni'' (municipalities) lying in ...

, in

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, southern

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It has an elevation of .

Description

The Monte delle Rose is located at the boundary with Sosio Valley Natural Reserve. Historically, it was mentioned by

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...

and

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...

and was famous for its herbs, studied by numerous botanists.

References

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