Bellano's Gorge

Location: Bellano (CO) 

Doc.: A. Grimoldi

 

According to our conception of restoration, the conservation turns out to be the main objective of participation.In order to bring back to light those which are the meaningful aspects of the past, and that therefore they tell of the ages precedence to our days, the participation on the degradation like has directed consequence the improvement of the fruibilità of the zone, through modality is qualitative that functional. It is tried therefore to conserve the today existing volumes, rethinking but to accessibility in order to return the place sfruttabile: in other words, to recover and to value an historical manufactured product in order to continue to use it, also in the time its destination of use, based on the necessities.

Important is also the acknowledgment of the remarkable provoked public interest from the zone for its singular natural conformation: a throat formed in the point of encounter of two mountains of the Valsassina, in which it slides the Pioverna river until to lead in the lake of Como. From here the choice of valorization of the orrido with participations that, in the respect of the authentic beauty, allow to exalt of the peculiarity to advantage of the fine.

The first step has been the historical search, for being able to know the origin of the manufactured one. Therefore we have consulted administrative books and documents, archives, catasti, agencies.

Afterwards we have carried out the geometric relief of the manufactured one.