Badalìs Trail

A path that will lead you to the traces of Badalìs, a magical animal similar to a large grreen and brown lizard with four legs. It is a creature of ancient origins that blows and hypnotizes with its only look. It is green like the prevailing colour of this valley in summer, covered today by a thick vegetation and brown life the fir trunks that line the village of Montagne, a fraction of the Municipality of Cesiomaggiore.

Starting from Soranzen you will come across the events that involved the oratory, which now lies there, abandoned and forgotten in the green. Together with the Villa Facino-Pasole, the Church of the Madonnetta remains the witness of a part of the past an history of this village. Where the sign indicates Via Bordugo, the Badalìs remembers a great bustle of people and animals as it was a really important center: a sort of industrial center of mountain equipped with a hammer, sawmill and millstones in which cereals were processed and all kinds of flours were produced, such as Vèla, Ave and Busa.

Going on you can come across the beautiful dry stone walls, but also ruins and overhanging wires: all sings of Human presence in this area. Nature has taken its course but without completely erasing the signs of a rich past.

You reach then the village of Montagne, where time seems to have stopped at the Fifties: the houses hae remained the same and fortunately those restores have retained the original essence. During the Second World War there were as many as 250 inhabitants, with a dairy of 150 cows, a tavern, schools, a cooperative and long rows of vines (some are still seen).

Along the path, be careful not to step on the footprints of the Mazharòl, a mischievous goblin with a red hat. There is also the possibility to pass near streams and fairy tale waterfalls where you can see a beautiful anguana intent on washing clothes or combing her long hair.

The path then leads back to the strating point.