admin May 31st, 2007
The pictures in this post comes from a well-furnished Christmas shop, as you can see, that is located in the middle of the small town of Oberammergau, about which I already talked in the past. It’s funny because those pictures are dating back to August 2004!
Indeed, that shop sells Christmas stuff and wooden statues, etc during all the year !
The north-european cities, in particular the ones of Austria, with Salisburg, Innsbruck and Vienna, have a long tradition about Christmas street markets and in general of Christmas-related objects. Recently we visited Velden, on the coast of the big lake Wörthersee, and even if it is a medium-sized town, there was a nice street market along the main road that were selling this kind of stuff.
admin May 27th, 2007
After 2 hours of walking, we reached a good spot. Still very distant from the waterfalls themselves, but at least we could admire them from distance already!
And they are really amazing… below a more detailed picture.
It seems that those waterfalls were famed already at Dante’s times. The “Supreme Poet” was so astonished hearing the powerful noise of the Acquacheta waterfalls that he compared it to the infernal river “Flegetonte” in his famous artwork “Divine Comedy”.
The way was continuing over the waterfalls, but having only one day at our disposal (and we didn’t started early), we decided to go back. Before departing from that wonderful place though, we discovered a really nice place just below the waterfall: a sort of giant pool with a real crystaline water, that was really inviting!
Judge for yourself… doesn’t it look like one of those typical tropical waterfall you can see in the jungles? those that often appear in movies or commercial spots? incredible, really.
The last picture, taken from below (the pool above)… the beeches’ lush green is really shining over the background, and you can almost feel better only looking at that picture. Really a place to visit, if you need to relax and stay away from the daily routine. Guaranteed!
If you have more time at your disposal, I suggest you go on and take a longer trip, since the Acquacheta Waterfalls are just a part of the huge National Park of Foreste Casentinesi , in which there’s plenty of neat places to visit !
admin May 20th, 2007
A very cool itinerary for the lovers of nature and walking is the “Acquacheta Waterfalls” one. They’re located nearby “Forlì-Cesena” in the tusco-emilian mountains called “Appennini”. We went there in may 2003, and I’m sure all of you remember how hot was that year! However the course is made for the most part from shadowed paths and a thick green vegetation (as you can admire in the photos below, depicting the beginning of the way).
a stoned path lead us into the beginning of the journey…
on the left there’s already the river, even if in the picture it’s hidden
The route is not hard at all, goes up slightly but you can do it (starting from the town of S.Benedetto in Alpe) in about 2 hours.
The cool thing about the route is that the path borders the river for most of it, and so you have the impression of walking side by side with the river itself.
The forest is made of beeches, oaks and chestnuts, typical of the “Foreste Casentinesi”. The green of their foliage is simply wonderful and adds a sort of magic to the place.
A wooden bridge that you’ll encounter during your way.
A stone house we met during the route, I don’t remember anymore if it was just an abandoned house, or a shelter of some kind.