Along the road from "Castagna" in Riotorto up towards the valley, and meets the first bend a capital, protected by a spin of Judah "of extraordinary size for the species. This is a Gleditsia triacanthos , plant imported from America in the late eighteenth century, to make an ornament for parks and gardens. It 's a thorny plant with oblong leaves and numerous, light green and yellow in autumn. Passing by car escapes the eyes, being in a secluded location but if you stop to look at it is amazed by the majesty and the particular form of the species.
San Zeno, falling away from the Ball Via delle Fontane, on the left you will find a grove along the slope of the hill. The forest leaves emerge, more and more as you go down, small jumps and boulders of limestone, which culminate in a small cliff with a drop of four to five meters to the nearby valley. The children play among the rocks to build palaces and hideouts, with branches and twigs collected in the woods. As a boy, we went with friends to discover the rocks, the presence of a small cave, there appears to be the only natural cave Arzignano: the entrance was then a small passage where you could only enter by crawling on all fours and moving bob carbide lamp and could advance to fifty feet, because the cave was closed, but progressively, going to end up in a narrow slit impassable. Yesterday I went back to the place, looking for the cave which I think corresponds to the "Cave of the Fox" by Fernando Zampiva mentioned in his book "Valley Unknown - Guide to Nature's Valley Chiampo. Zampiva however places the cave halfway between San Zeno and Calvarina near Marana Contrà in an area devoid of limestone outcrops in fact I think that the error can be explained by the presence in the old "plaques" geographic military a "Ca Marana" right near the woods that I described earlier. In any case I could not find the entrance, however, certain of its existence.
Dov'è finita la grotta smarrita?
Durante l'inverno si riordinano le viti, potando e legando i tralci. Il colore grigio dei boschi lascia brillare il giallo rossiccio dei rami degli stroppari ( Salix viminalis ), tanto utili per farne legacci da usare nei vigneti. E' un residuo di paesaggio agrario che sopravvive alla modernità, speriamo ancora per molto.
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