"We passed the bridge at the bottom of the pavement, the basaltic wall of the castle stand in the way we and the filly seemed to go crashing into the nose. The lane, however, turned left, passing under the arch of a door ... We passed the ruins of a few yards and went down on a grassy area that overlooked the gorge.
was a wonderfully romantic place .
The ancient bridge erected for the first time since the Etruscan volcano tuff blackish, rises in the air and bent like a strange bubble. Forty feet below, at the bottom of the ravine full of brambles, stream flows, while the bridge is silhouetted in the sky as a lone black rainbow, with the leading form of a perfect long-forgotten ...
Adjacent to the bridge from this side, is almost all black construction of the castle ruins , with weeds sprouting out from the stands and from the top of the tower ... All around there's an empty feeling particularly ... "
The bridge of the Abbey of volcano is one of the many bridges of the Devil " very common name, as is a common story for each of these narratives: bridge-builders or for travelers who manage to overcome the obstacle posed by the river, asking for help to the devil. The Devil agrees and calls for change in the traditional spirit of the first creature that will traverse, and then remained duped cunning antagonist, often a saint, who always manages to cross the bridge to a dog, a cat, or even a form of cheese.
It is said that the bridge Vulci cost to the devil so much effort to force him to wipe the sweat with a handkerchief that has been there, enclosed in one of the stalactites hanging on the sides of the bridge itself.
The most authoritative sources on the subject are Mircea Eliade (The Rites of building. Jaca Book, 1990) and Anita Seppilli (sacrilege of the sacredness of water and bridges, Sellerio 1977), but only for fans of refined fantarcheologia made in Italy there's more ...
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