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Cianciana is a small Switzerland: the waste has reached 68 percent. The streets are clean and without holes and the water is always present (...). “ (A. Alfano)
So Cianciana is a municipality that does not surrender to the crisis but on the contrary, today in
partnership with the University, is developing an urban regeneration project aims to promote the
area and the historical, cultural and landscape that possesses
1. Attractiveness of the landscape and nature of the City of Cianciana
The attractiveness of the landscape and nature City of Cianciana are input design of sustainable
urban regeneration. Cianciana is part of the Sicani Mountains and is located in the valley of Platani. The limits of the territory consist of the Walloon Cinié, the Walloon Intronata, Millaga and
Knights and south from the river Platani. The territory of Cianciana, extended 3,700 hectares, comprises former fiefdoms Ciancianìa, Feudotto and Bissàna.
Land and subsoil - The territory is a succession of hills and valleys from which rise: Rosskopf (756
m), Pizzo Firraria (656 m) and Monte Chiappara (703 m). Monte Cavallo are some caves of great
archaeological and naturalistic interest: the Horse Cave, the Cave of the Mayor, the Grotto and the
Cave Zubbio freezes, in which cavity, hundreds of meters long, it has a much lower temperature
than the outside. Very interesting from the geological point of view, natural and archaeological
landscapes of these caves have underground very interesting: the percolation of water inside the
caves, over time, has formed stalactites; in the bottom of Horse Cave it is also a pond deep, about
six meters, in whose waters have been found remains of ancient civilizations.
Rivers and springs - In the territory of Cianciana flows the river Platani that the ancestors called
Halykos to the saltiness of the water. The river forms the border south of the town.
Figure 2: Municipality of Cianciana - project areas
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