this morning with my brother, I visited several small villages Staffora characteristics of the valley, the bright colors of autumn, on a beautiful sunny day, clear and warm.
We first rose to Rocca Susella, from whose summit we looked at the beautiful scenery of the surrounding hills and fields of fresh seed, then we descended towards the village of St. Zaccaria, decorated with, among other things, a valuable avenue of cypress trees in Arizona and a 'old stone church, in mountain style, with a nice front rustic impression of late Romanesque, visible in the photos. From here we reached
Godiasco Bridge and then Nice, where we made a quick stop in a "shop" for the sale of mushrooms and truffles, of any kind. With a small fee I bought a bag of dried porcini, recently collected, weighing a pound, on special offer at reduced prices.
no hurry then we have reached Cegni the location of a small and quiet group of stone houses, old streets and placed on very characteristic, in a delightful position, beaten by a cool mountain breezes, tempered by sunshine. The resort is known for a famous summer carnival "held every year around August and the festival is enlivened by the sound of a whole local music for wind instruments, known as" the Pied Cegni. A Cegni we took some photos to some corners and alleys in the country.
Then we reached the small but beautiful sanctuary of the Madonna del Bocco, accessible from a side of the road to Cegni, characterized by a steep climb of about 1 km on a narrow paved road in the middle a deciduous forest and coniferous trees, which leads to the square of the church erected in memory of Marian apparitions in 1948 the visionary Angela Volpini, interviewed several times in various TV in recent years. Two hundred feet below, in the woods, is a small temple which commemorates the exact spot of the apparitions in this young country.
alley, we went to St. Margaret Staffora, where a small and well-known local delicatessen salami cacciatorini I bought 3. In Santa Maghera we then consumed a small meal, "but very nice and modest spending, a restaurant not far from the course of Straffora. To complete the "food supplies" I was given the gift of a bag of variety Melette rare and little-known called "Knoblock Genovese." The variety seems to derive from a hybrid implant, made around 1850, on rootstocks (semi-wild) of apple trees of Genoese origin, with a plant of this rustic apple, with a certain distribution, in Oltrepo '. The variety "Genovese Knoblock, for some of its specific features, then had some circulation, in episodic form, in some gardens on the hills, particularly in the Valley Staffora.
At present, the variety is now very rare and difficult to find. The apples produced are small, varying in color from pale green (mostly) to bright red. Vaguely resemble the known varieties of apples Morgan (larger), but the taste and flavor of the knobs are more intense and captivating. They are rather hard dough, crisp tasting, last long in winter in a cool, are excellent, among other things, for baking, after elimination of the core, fill with sugar, the next brewing in a little water.
After the 15, while a few harmless white cloud appeared in the sky, we headed for home.
E 'was a pleasant and quiet day, away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
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