Rural Seriana Valley - TRIP CODE: ENECOSER
3 days 2 nights
1st day: Ardesio and Gromo - LUNCH INCLUDED
Visit of Rural House in Ardesio. In the ancient fifteenth-century building "ca' of the Murinina" is prepared the fifth museal section with rural cultural setting. Daily opened to the public, the rural house is situated in the medieval suburb that releases him among the streets that bring to the Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie.
Typical lunch with local products (polenta and casoncelli).
Going up the Seriana Valley, you will find a dark cliff along the street. Gromo is right over there: one of Italy’s most beautiful hamlets. Go walk across its medieval alleys, and it will be like going back in time. You could even find a smith hammering at his anvil: in fact, during the Middle Age smithies were so numerous here that Gromo started to be called “The little Toledo”, a city renowned for the white weapons manufacture.
Free dinner and overnight in hotel.
2nd day: Clusone and Rovetta
Breakfast in hotel.
In Clusone we have the possibility to do a rural walk. Crossing an ancient way absorbed in the marvelous rural atmosphere of the highland clusonese, we will come near a farmhouse, an ancient barn turned into an elegant receptive structure, that it will know how to tell in tourist key the unchanged one and secular rural life. To follow tasting near the farmhouse.
Free lunch.
In Rovetta a walk can be make among the ancient rural houses of the country instead, the history of two home ingredients today recognized by the best palates…the Corn Rostrato Rosso and the Potato of Rovetta, ingredients appreciated of the mountain feeding.
Free dinner and overnight in hotel.
3rd day: Cerete Mills and Gorno Mines
Breakfast in hotel.
Very important for Cerete, they were once its mills. It is interesting to know that the abundance of water has allowed along the centuries the to bloom in this zone of numerous handicraft activities, the water energy it fed in fact the mills for the cereals, the sawmills, the so-called “Pestoni” for the bark and of other type as for instance for the “pilatura” of the bowline, the fulling of the wool etc., the forges, the paper mill and the mule room. In the area green adjacent to Rising street Moia in the fraction of Cerete Basso once a hydraulic “Pestone”. It deals with a mill to water whose forces engine it was used to produce the tannin, substance that is extracted by the bark of the trees and that it served for the tanning of the skins.
Free lunch.
The Ecomuseo of the Mines of Gorno (entrance excluded) – the zinc's trip between mountain pasture and mines – borns in first place with the intent to consolidate the bond of the local community with their own roots, their own history and their own traditions. Such objective he is implement through interventions of search, safeguard and exploitation of the culture and the territory.
Term of the services.
INDIVIDUAL FARE MINIMUM 2 PEOPLE FROM € 125
Group fare on request
The fare includes:
- Accommodation in hotel 3* in bed & breakfast
- Lunch in restaurant
- Entrance to Rural House in Ardesio
The fare doesn't include:
- Any type of assurance
- Every type of service unspecified in "the fare includes".
