Santuario del Monte delle Formiche

Italy / Emilia-Romagna / Monterenzio /
 church, park, hill, interesting place
the sanctuary of Saint Maria di Zena, famous best like Mount of the Ants. This name derives from a natural phenomenon much detail that here verification: every year, from the remoter times, in the first days of migrano september to swarms on this summit, from the center dell' Europe, the males of the winged ants of the variety Mirmyca Scabrinodis in order to complete their wedding flight. Once you couple yourselves, the ants go to die to hundred of migliaia in the zone of the sanctuary. It is a truly only show and from brivido: these nuvoloni black of ants are looked at to arrive the sky and then to die all together
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Coordinates:   44°19'9"N   11°23'7"E
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