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Abandoned in the 1960s, it has been brought back to life more recently thanks to a project to build an observatory there (<strong>Osservatorio Astronomico<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Financed by the European Economic Community in 1995, the Umbria region began a project to build an observatory and chose this spot as the ideal place for it because of the clean air and absence of any light pollution in the valley.<\/p>\n<p>The project, completed in 2000, made it possible to build one of the most advanced observatories in Italy that works on a system of automatic functions (it does not require a human\u2019s presence during the night).<\/p>\n<p>The observatory outside Coloti is a large structure today, having twelve rooms, eight of which are open to the public, plus the ex-church of the hamlet dedicated to St Lorenzo now used for meeting rooms and a modern wing called \u2018<em>Sirio<\/em>\u2019, where there are things for your entertainment and a caff\u00e8. It is all surmounted by the large seven-meter diameter dome with its telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8 kilometers from the town of\u00a0 Montone, in the luxuriant vegetation of the Pietralunga forest in the Carpina Valley, is a small hamlet called Coloti. Abandoned in the 1960s, it has been brought back to life more recently thanks to a project to build an observatory there (Osservatorio Astronomico). 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