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Altitude Tufo: 721 m.l.m. Altitude Vezzano: 645 m.l.m. Altitude Camartina: 706 m.l.m.
Tufo, Vezzano and Camartina are the smallest villages of the Municipality of Arquata, but they can offer as well an interesting itinerary. In the Annunziata’s Church of Tufo (it takes its name from the typical rock of the area) there is an Annunciation made by Guido Reni and an ancient Cross. But a legendary past surrounds this little village: during the Roman Empire Tufo was called "Vicus ad Martis" and was the Summer residence of the Imperial gens Flavia. In fact the legend recalls, that the Roman Emperors Vespasianus and Titus were born here... Vezzano offers the Santa Lucia’s Church. In the past it was tradition for all the inhabitants of the Municipality to enter the church in pilgrimage and, considering sacred the water of the fountain, to wash their eyes on that water.
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