THE LEGENDS OF MONTE CONERO
THE LEGENDS OF MONTE CONERO Grotta degli Schiavi: collapsed in the 1930s, the beautiful cave survives in memory and legends linked to pirates. These seem to have used this cave as a "deposit" for slaves, whose laments could be heard from a great distance; among them, one day a beautiful Venetian princess arrived, who, sad for her long stay, melted with her own tears, forming a source of pure water that still today flows into the Adriatic Sea. Deep Lake: there are many legends that underline the danger of this small lake in Portonovo. The most important echoes the existence of a small river, the Budello del Profondo, which crossed the Cònero connecting the lake with Porto Recanati. It also seems that a secret seven based in Portonovo used to throw the corpses of the nobles into this lake who insisted on practicing the deplorable ritual of the ius primae noctis. Buco del Diavolo: also called Buco della Paura, is a disturbing underground path near Camerano. A tradition t
