Middle Lands - Val Grande from linking park in the end Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 6 min 94 sec
✓ Published: 18-Nov-2015

Description:
In mediaeval times, hillside settlements began to spring up, midway between the mountain tops of Val Grande and the wetland plains of the Toce and Lake Maggiore. Terre di Mezzo, Middle Lands, these permanent settlements were nodes in a network of mule tracks linking a constellation of springtime livestock enclosures and summer pastures. Vertical movements regulated by the seasons. At the other end is the valley floor. Since time immemorial, this has been a thoroughfare across the Alps from the P