The waters of the Acquacheta hurl down a 70-meter drop, sliding rapidly down on the rock and at times throwing off the protruding arenaceous rocks.
In the plateau situated upstream the waterfall and originating from an ancient lake which silted up, there is the village of the Romiti, which was built on the ruins of the hermitage of the monastery of San Benedetto in Alpe. Here Dante found a shelter during his exile from Florence (in the XVI canto of the Inferno you can read a famous description of the waterfall).
In the San Benedetto - Aquacheta waterfall stretch there is now a nature trail called "La valle e la cascata di Dante" with the following features: