Leaving Cascia behind, travelling in the direction of Roccaperona, one enters the Corno Valley.

A few kilometres on,  just as the gorge widens and branches off at the exact centre of the Corno fork, rises the Sacred cliff of Roccaporena: a bare pale pyramid, the tip of which is lost in the azure of the sky. In front of the Sacred Cliff, high up on Roccaperona, the Grotta d’Oro (“Golden Grotto”), a semicircular shallow spacious cave, opens up in the crag. In the same crag, about a hundred meters as the crow flies from the Grotta d’Oro, separated by stone blades, is the Miracle garden, a modern transposition of the garden in which, in midwinter, the fruits wished for by Rita on her deathbed and granted by her Groom were picked and brought to her: freshly blossomed roses and figs. The surface of the bronze statue of dying Rita, which is located in front of the garden, has become smooth thanks to the caresses of the innumerable imploring hands, the kisses and handkerchiefs passed over the image in the hope that they might absorb the power of holiness.

Other places connected to the life of Saint Rita and open for visitation are: The Shrine, The Church of S. Montano, the Marital home of Saint Rita, the Hospital, the House in which St. Rita was born.

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