{"id":209,"date":"2014-12-03T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:58:06","slug":"la-fiorita-flowering-castelluccio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/la-fiorita-flowering-castelluccio\/","title":{"rendered":"La Fiorita: The Flowering of Castelluccio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castelluccio di Norcia is a town located in the National Park of the Sibillini Mountains, at an altitude of 1452 meters and a few kilometers (about 28) from Norcia (PG), in Valnerina.<\/p>\n<p>The village is located on top of a hill, in the middle of a plateau in front of the Mount Carrier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The plateau is divided into 3 levels: Pian Grande;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Small and Pian Pian Lost.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>For a total of 15 km\u00b2, that during the year appear chromatically &#8220;poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;sameness&#8221; is broken between late May and early July of each year thanks to the spectacle of nature (the case was never more appropriate for the idiomatic expression, ed) called &#8220;La Fiorita&#8221; Castelluccio di Norcia.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>When the flowers bloom 3 floors exploding colors, with shades ranging from yellow to red ocher, purple to white.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>For example you can see lentils (features and grown in Castelluccio), gentianellas, poppies, daffodils, violets, daffodils, purple eugeniae, clovers, shamrocks and many more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>And if you decide to take a walk in this &#8220;natural mosaic&#8221;, who knows what you fail to spot some deer and gazelle &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Feast of the Flowering takes place every year in the third and the last Sunday of June, there is not a better or worse time to attend the Flowering or Fiorita.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>And not even a climax.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Depending on the time you will find a more or less present, more or less colors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It depends on many factors: how much it rained during winter and spring;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the period of exposure to the sun;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the planting period, especially the lentil.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Without forgetting that each species has a different flower to bloom period.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p>Norcia Information Office Tel. 0743.828173;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nPro-Loco Castelluccio cell.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>3386267022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castelluccio di Norcia is a town located in the National Park of the Sibillini Mountains, at an altitude of 1452 meters and a few kilometers (about 28) from Norcia (PG), in Valnerina. The village is located on top of a hill, in the middle of a plateau in front of the Mount Carrier.\u00a0The plateau is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perugiaagriturismo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}