OltrepoPavese

OltrepoPavese is a digital territory. Culture, Taste, Music and Environment in an interactive journey of discovery of the local heritage and ongoing initiatives.

Question 1: How long takes to learn the Oltrepò Pavese? One hour, two, a year or maybe not enough? Answer: he Oltrepò know walking. Is not the answer you were expecting? Not the fact is, does not provide numbers, but a mode.

Question 2: How long does it take to find out who are born in Oltrepò orchids, find them, wonder and turn them into memory? You can not quantify the time of an orchid. Even that of a castle, a tower, a square and the sea on the horizon. Just the sea? That's him. By the green and the sea can be seen on the other side, to the north, you see the plain, the Po and the Alps.

Question 3: How long does it take for a taste, a wine, a recipe, the rite of a renovated old canteen? The time to understand them, know them and give in to the feeling. And this time, naturally, has no hands. Someone calls them "assets", someone "traditions" are the soul of a place, its identity.

OltrepoPavese said possible suggestions walking in a territory that is also, like the others, made of pure numbers. Altitudes up Apennines: Monte Lesima: 1724 meters; Monte chiappo: 1700 meters; Cima Colletta: 1494 meters; Monte Penice 1460 meters.

In addition to the Po, 8 watercourses regime average constant Staffora Ardivestra, Tidone, Cup, Scuropasso, Versa, Versiggia, Bardonezza. It is the most famous waterways, but the system is a complex network dell'Oltrepò hydrogeological and atmospheric waters.

The major centers revolve on its valleys: Voghera (Staffora), Casteggio (Cup), Broni (Scuropasso), Stradella (Versa) and Varzi, in the heart of the Apennines, the historical point of arrival, departure and transit along the Staffora, towards Po Valley or towards Liguria.

From here he passed the Salt Road, which was a way of other cultures, exchanges and shares. Around the major centers, the constellation of 73 municipalities and an extraordinary "garden": 14,000 acres of vineyards, and then forests and areas that tell the ancient forest hills and mountains, plants and herbs, wild fruits and crops. All this and 50 km from Milan, 90 km from Genoa, 40 km from Piacenza and 40 km from Alessandria. Among the stories in Oltrepò brought the story, that of the Celts, the ancient Gauls and then the Romans, the Lombards, the Middle Ages with its pilgrims and its warriors, magnificent courts or bellicose, stories of hermits and monasteries, and the Napoleonic campaigns the Risorgimento, the Great Wars, today.

And, today, the story is still readable, traveling between monuments and trails, landscapes and feelings.

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G.A.L. Foundation for the svluppo Oltrepo Pavese

Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 16 (at IPSIA) 27057 Varzi (PV)

Tel: 0383.54.06.37 - 54.57.35

Fax: 0383.53.58.3

email: info@gal-oltrepo.it

PEC: galoltrepo@pec.ascompavia.it