Why visit the Cuna of canal? It 's a small side valley between Canal and the Valley of St. Francis Tramontina, now abandoned. My mother told me that you must learn to live to see the death. On the social level as on the staff: you dive visit a dead valley, to learn not to kill our mountain valleys.
The last inhabitant left the Canal Cuna in 1952, but at the beginning of the twentieth century there lived 130 inhabitants scattered in different villages. There they lived well because at the time was the level of welfare given by the number of animals that could keep ... And the copses of the Channel were then lawns, you could raise many flocks and herds. He lived well so much so that women were serving in Tramonti Channel, so much so that someone had also founded La Cassa di Risparmio di Cuna Canal. But for more information on the channel you can go to the site http://www.cuna.it/ .
You can go from San Francisco or Tramonti di Mezzo. More impressive, but longer and more difficult the crossing from St. Francis, therefore suggest that by sunset, a walk of four hours non-binding (reduced to two with a first approach by car) ..
rose to Tramonti di Mezzo, you can not go wrong, in the center of the small village turn right into Via Cuna Canal and take a paved road that runs along the river Chiarchia. For those who want to you can leave your car in town and continue on foot (two and a half hours each way just shows the sign outside the country). Still leave the car where it meets the sign ban on driving under the stupid LR n.15, continue on foot for the curves that rise to Pitchfork zuviel. The road is paved for a good while yet until the Rural Selva Piana. Then There are landslides that sometimes make it difficult to pass in the car, but since that has already been abandoned due to the force of law, there are no problems ....
In half an hour to get to the step of Forchia zuviel, at the junction turn left along the path 810, but as he takes a breath before starting the descent on the old cart, also well reduced to a path, which winds in a small forest beech, you can make contact with the first ruins of the Canal. Perhaps the last houses to be abandoned because they are closer to the country. There you can see it in concrete actions of accommodation. Lacked water, who knows where you went to draw even for animals! ... Until you built the cistern for rainwater harvesting. The last works of those who thought that you had to leave the valley. But progress is unstoppable! ...
Then, a short and narrow winding path down the slope on a steep slope that makes her sigh at the thought of hard work that you will have to go back ... The trail is well preserved and one can see signs of the original trail, then arranged for military purposes. In some hairpin bends are found traces of squared stones in walls typical of the interventions of military genius.
The last inhabitant left the Canal Cuna in 1952, but at the beginning of the twentieth century there lived 130 inhabitants scattered in different villages. There they lived well because at the time was the level of welfare given by the number of animals that could keep ... And the copses of the Channel were then lawns, you could raise many flocks and herds. He lived well so much so that women were serving in Tramonti Channel, so much so that someone had also founded La Cassa di Risparmio di Cuna Canal. But for more information on the channel you can go to the site http://www.cuna.it/ .
You can go from San Francisco or Tramonti di Mezzo. More impressive, but longer and more difficult the crossing from St. Francis, therefore suggest that by sunset, a walk of four hours non-binding (reduced to two with a first approach by car) ..
rose to Tramonti di Mezzo, you can not go wrong, in the center of the small village turn right into Via Cuna Canal and take a paved road that runs along the river Chiarchia. For those who want to you can leave your car in town and continue on foot (two and a half hours each way just shows the sign outside the country). Still leave the car where it meets the sign ban on driving under the stupid LR n.15, continue on foot for the curves that rise to Pitchfork zuviel. The road is paved for a good while yet until the Rural Selva Piana. Then There are landslides that sometimes make it difficult to pass in the car, but since that has already been abandoned due to the force of law, there are no problems ....
In half an hour to get to the step of Forchia zuviel, at the junction turn left along the path 810, but as he takes a breath before starting the descent on the old cart, also well reduced to a path, which winds in a small forest beech, you can make contact with the first ruins of the Canal. Perhaps the last houses to be abandoned because they are closer to the country. There you can see it in concrete actions of accommodation. Lacked water, who knows where you went to draw even for animals! ... Until you built the cistern for rainwater harvesting. The last works of those who thought that you had to leave the valley. But progress is unstoppable! ...
Then, a short and narrow winding path down the slope on a steep slope that makes her sigh at the thought of hard work that you will have to go back ... The trail is well preserved and one can see signs of the original trail, then arranged for military purposes. In some hairpin bends are found traces of squared stones in walls typical of the interventions of military genius.
military defense strategies at the time of World War I, the valley had its own importance that was tested in practice after the course Kobarid. Some companies of the Division of General Rocca, retreating from the front, locked in the Strait of St. Francis by the Austrian troops that had reached Splilimbergo, managed to pass through the channel of the encirclement Cuna. The general however, with the bulk of the division, the breakthrough would groped and brought his men to massacre remembered in memorial of the battle on the road from the oven door Pielungo Clauzetto.
When the last hairpin is visible at the bottom of the flow of the river has almost arrived, and in fact after a few minutes to reach the bridge, as the drawbridges of medieval castles, marks the entrance to the village of Pescalon, the capital of the valley . And 'here that there was a church, primary school, the mill ...
The most interesting thing to see is the Church that a group of volunteers inspired by Gino Lorenzini wanted to restore, to witness the effort of memory to resist time, to be able to keep in memory, what time would destroy.
Equally interesting are the ruins of houses, silent witnesses to the life of the past, to witness the work of men, who were rescued from the forest land where the cattle feed to make a living ... Now the forest is taking revenge, the ivy and the vines are creeping among the rocks, the trees grow in the rooms where for centuries lived, fought, suffered and enjoyed generations of people.
front of the church restored and the ruins of the houses we can not but reflect on the death of a valley. But words can never recreate an emotion. To feel the charm of the valley you must go ... ... a good walk.
When the last hairpin is visible at the bottom of the flow of the river has almost arrived, and in fact after a few minutes to reach the bridge, as the drawbridges of medieval castles, marks the entrance to the village of Pescalon, the capital of the valley . And 'here that there was a church, primary school, the mill ...
The most interesting thing to see is the Church that a group of volunteers inspired by Gino Lorenzini wanted to restore, to witness the effort of memory to resist time, to be able to keep in memory, what time would destroy.
Equally interesting are the ruins of houses, silent witnesses to the life of the past, to witness the work of men, who were rescued from the forest land where the cattle feed to make a living ... Now the forest is taking revenge, the ivy and the vines are creeping among the rocks, the trees grow in the rooms where for centuries lived, fought, suffered and enjoyed generations of people.
front of the church restored and the ruins of the houses we can not but reflect on the death of a valley. But words can never recreate an emotion. To feel the charm of the valley you must go ... ... a good walk.
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