The Fall Of Marmore, one the highest of Europe, is an artificial work built by Romans. In 271 a.C. the consul Manlio Curium Dentato ordered the excavation of a channel (Cavo Curiano), to reclaim the the swamps grounds of the reatina plain due to the river waters Velino. The stagnant waters, of the river Velino, in the reatina valley were coming directing with the channel up to the Marmore rock, from where they fall in the underlying river bed of the Nera river, with a 165 meter total jump.
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