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The Rock is not only the wonderful scenographic background which characterizes so much the iconographic image of Cefalù, but it is an integral part of Cefalù itself which has developed at its slopes and has drawn from its rocks the building material for the construction of the built-up area. The Rock, a mother, generates and dominates the town and tells part of its history, rich as it is of evidences which have stratified in her in the course of the centuries. The relationship Cefalù has always had with the Rock strengthens the theory according to which Kephaloidion, the ancient name of Cefalù, comes from "Kefalis", i.e. "head", because of the characteristic shape of the Rock.
The Rock rises up to 268 mt. above sea level, the Peregrine Falcon still reigns over it, and it still has, in part, its original Mediterranean scrub even if it got destroyed several times by fires; from the geological point of view, the Rock presents peculiarities which have recently been discovered thanks to the modern methods of research: “chemical tracers” have been in fact poured over the peak of mount Carbonara, which have then been found near the port of Cefalù, just in the waters of the spring of Presidiana… this shows that the Rock is connected, underground, with the complex of Peak Carbonara.