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'''Monte Soratte''' (ancient: ''Soracte'') is a mountain ridge in the [[Metropolitan City of Rome]], central [[Italy]]. It is a narrow, isolated [[limestone]] ridge with a length of {{convert|5.5|km|abbr=on}} and six peaks. Located some {{convert|10|km|abbr=on}} south east of [[Civita Castellana]] and c. {{convert|45|km|abbr=on}} north of [[Rome]], it is the sole notable ridge in the [[Tiber]] Valley. The nearest settlement is the village of [[Sant'Oreste]]. Saint Orestes or [[Edistus]], after whom the settlement is named, is said to have been [[martyr]]ed near Monte Soratte.<br />
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The highest summit is {{convert|691|m|abbr=on}} above sea-level. The ridge is part of a {{convert|444|ha|adj=on}} Natural Reserve housing a variety of vegetation and fauna.<ref>{{cite web|title=Riserva Naturale Monte Soratte |url=http://www.parks.it/riserva.monte.soratte/Eindex.php |publisher=Parks.it|accessdate=25 July 2022}}</ref> It is also characterized by the so-called ''Meri'', pits which can be up to {{convert|115|m}} deep.<br />
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==History and sights==<br />
The area was used by the ancient [[Italic peoples]] of the area ([[Sabines]], [[Capena]]tes, [[Falisci]]) and the [[Etruscan civilization]] for the cult of the God [[Soranus (mythology)|Soranus]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Rissanen|first=Mika|title=The Hirpi Sorani and the Wolf Cults of Central Italy|url=https://www.academia.edu/2177407|work=Arctos|date=17 April 2013 |accessdate=3 October 2022}}</ref> Mount Soratte was mentioned by [[Horace]] ("vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte?" ''Carm.'' i. 9), and [[Virgil]], who stated that [[Apollo]] was its guardian deity.<br />
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The hermitage of St. Sylvester is just below the summit. According to a [[Acts of Sylvester|legend]], its church was founded by [[Pope Sylvester I|Pope Sylvester]], who had taken refuge there to escape [[Constantine the Great|Constantine]]'s persecution. The church houses 14th- and 15th-century frescoes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frescoes in the Church of San Silvestro |url=http://www.avventurasoratte.com/affreschi.htm |accessdate=25 July 2011|publisher=Associazione Avventura Soratte|language=Italian}}</ref> Another four hermitages are on the ridge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Perimetro Istitutivo Della Riserva Naturale Monte Soratte|url=http://www.provincia.roma.it/sites/default/files/Perimetro-Soratte.pdf|date=1997|publisher=Provincia di Roma|language=Italian|accessdate=25 July 2022}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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The church of ''Santa Maria delle Grazie'' was built in 1835 over a pre-existing 16th-century edifice and houses a once highly venerated image of the ''Madonna''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}<br />
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[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] mentioned the peak in ''[[Italian Journey]]'', his diary of his travels through Italy from 1786–1788. He wrote that "Soracte stands out by itself in magnificent solitude. Probably this mountain is made of limestone and belongs to the Apennines."<ref>{{cite book|last=Goethe|first=Johann W.|authorlink=Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|title=[[Italian Journey]] |page=127 |year=1970 |publisher=Penguin|location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England |isbn=0-14-044233-2}}</ref><br />
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In his 1902 memoir ''The Path to Rome'', [[Hilaire Belloc]] sketched the mountain in the final days of his walking pilgrimage from [[Toul]] and wrote: "It stood up like an acropolis, but it was a citadel for no city. It stood alone, like the soul that once haunted its recesses and prophesied the conquering advent of the northern kings."<ref>{{cite book|last=Belloc|first=Hilaire|authorlink=Hilaire Belloc|title=[[The Path to Rome]] |page=433 |year=1902 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|location=New York, New York|isbn=9780049140172}}</ref><br />
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During World War II, after the 8 September 1943 [[Frascati air raid]], Field Marshal [[Albert Kesselring]] moved his headquarters from Frascati to the bunkers in Monte Soratte.<ref>{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Richard|title=Italians open Nazi bunker to tourists|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article857617.ece|work=The Times|accessdate=26 July 2011|date=5 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Bunker of the Monte Soratte|url=http://www.bunkersoratte.it/storia.html|publisher=L'Associazione Bunker Soratte|accessdate=26 July 2011|language=Italian}}</ref><br />
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