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Pretare is well known as “Fairyland”; a legend recalls the tale of the Sybille and her fairies. Once upon a time in this place there was a village called Colfiorito (instead of the two hamlets of Pretare and Piedilama) where all the inhabitants lived in harmony and happiness... But the perfidious priesthood Sybille, destroyed this beautiful country using a landslide. Many years later, some shepherds arrived here and were greeted by beautiful fairies that every night visited and danced with them. These fairies were the personification of nature, fire, wood, meadow, wind, snow and water.

However the fairies were creatures serving the perfidious Sybille. Bestowed with beautiful appearances yet possessing horrible goat foot, the fairies ran away from the shepherds before sunset, without revealing their double-nature. One day a mysterious knight called Guerrin Meschino arrived and conquered Sybille in a duel. The fairies, freed by her defeat, married the shepherds and in doing so gave restored life to this territory where now you can find Pretare...

But there are also two other legends about Pretare and the fairies: the first one tells us that one night a shepherd saw the goat foot and the fairy bought his silence with a promise: every time the shepherd would put his hand into his pocket, he would then find a gold coin. However after a few days the shepherd revealed the fairy’s secret: since that moment on he discovered soil each time he put his hand into the pocket...

The second legend is set in the other side of the Mount Vettore, in front of the village of Castelluccio. Once upon a time there was a dancing feast that prolonged until the dawn...so the fairies ran away suddenly as faster as they could to reach their caves. On this side of the Mount Vettore there is an evident stripe of ground, called the “Fairies Path”.