The Ciuffa di Bonifacio (Ciuffetta Colle San Sisto)

Clearly visible between Monte Della Farina and the Monti della Laga mountain range, stands the circle of centuries-old beech trees that adorns Colle San Sisto. On it remain the ruins of an ancient Benedictine monastery and perhaps the tomb of King Manfred of Swabia. Mysterious hill, it was said to be a destination for amorous conferences in the summer and a meeting place for witches in the popular imagination.
La Ciuffetta is the peak of the horizon overlooking the village of Vallenquina with the homonymous Castle to the north and the village of Vallepezzata to the south. Suggestive, panoramic and welcoming Vallenquina, worrying, shady and hidden Vallepezzata. Enhanced by the pedestal of a Vallenquina hill, hidden and buried in a Vallepezzata geological hole. Vallenquina was characterized by its Castle and Vallepezzata had the disturbing charm of fear.

La Ciuffetta is lapped by the ancient Roman road Metella, which foreshortened the ancient Salaria between the city of Amatrice and the salt pans of the Adriatic and many crosses on the edge of the road signal the deaths from frostbite in the storm of unfortunate travelers.
There is a legend according to which a nobleman of the Bonifaci, owner of the castle of Vallenquina and of a sumptuous villa located near Rocca di Civitella, who had had excavations carried out in the ruins of the tuft, did not as soon as Latin writings appeared on the stones, he sent the illiterate workers away to continue the search for treasures alone. It seems that when a jar full of gold coins was unearthed by the noble, a Devil appeared and offered the unfortunate man the alternative of dying or bricklaying. The aristocrat Bonifaci chose life and sentenced it to build walls throughout its existence. Ancient tales speak of mountaineers who claimed to have observed him in his continuous stacking of stones.