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A LESSON GIVEN BY THE MOUNTAIN

From the temple of living to the places which work. From the house of Graziòli to Percorso Linum. The course was set up in 2001 and integrated in 2002. The excursion lasts about 2 hours along a circular path and links the towns of Strombiano and Celentino. This will guide you through woods and plains so that you can become more familiar with the ethnographic and history.

The path we would like to propose shows certain aspects of life, territory and work carried out by a small Alpine village. The woods and plains, over the centuries, have been important to the local economy. Every resource which nature gives is exploited, every thing had a reason for existing, products and by-products have a precise end use. Waste was not part of the community’s way of life. These microcosms of almost exclusive self-sufficiency has been in existence for a nearly a thousand years, almost unchanged. These reflect the work, customs, which have often been troubled by poverty, plague, wars and natural calamities. It is therefore a small world both in dimension and resources which can, today, create nostalgia and admiration whilst in reality was lived with sacrifice and resignation.

In Val di Pèio you can still find, examples of the past. The course offers the following places of interest: churches, small churches and capitals which show the artistic ambitions and devotion of our people. You can also find different types of rural architecture: information on how to use the woods and management of the forest and fauna. It opens up a window on the toponomy, a world of place names in order to read the layers of life lived over the centuries. It catapults you into the distant past and in the prehistoric rituals of cupels. It re-calls the origins of mechanics and the energy of sweets from the mill. The Linum path throws a ray of light on all of this.

Text by Rinaldo Delpero Peio@biblio.infotn.it