Dates: 22-23 May, 2024. Possibile second round on 24-25 May, 2024

Duration: two days; departure and arrival in Florence.

Attendance Fee: € 350,00

* Bus transfers; one overnight stay in single/double/triple room; one breakfast, one packed lunch, one lunch in Civita di Bagnoregio, one dinner in Sorano; excursion guide

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Tour Leader: Sara Marinari

Field trip goals: observation and analysis of paleosols with different ages and features in a context of widespread volcanic and volcanic-sedimentary successions of Middle Pleistocene (Vulsini Volcanic District).

Destination: Civita di Bagnoregio, Canino, Sermugnano (Lazio, Viterbo province); Pitigliano (Toscana, Grosseto province).

Soil-related topics: soils genesis and development in different geological, climatic and morphological contexts; volcanology; paleoclimatology; paleogeomorphology; geochemistry.

Other multidisciplinary topics: natural climate changes (glacial and interglacial periods); erosion, landslides and “città del tufo” (“tuffs town”) landscape; overview of Bolsena lake in the volcanic caldera geological context; archeological evidence of Etruscan culture; geo-tourism.

Socio-cultural themes: at the border between Lazio and Umbria visiting the enchanted little town of Civita di Bagnoregio, at the top of a high tuff spur exposed to a fast erosion (Civita is the birthplace of San Bonaventura, 13th century, religious philosopher, theologian and biographer of St. Francis of Assisi); land planning and management; archeology.