THE NATIONAL VALGRANDE PARK AND THE “THE TASTE’S PATHS” EXHIBITION
September 10th, 2009Views:605
The National Park of the Valgrande Valley was founded in 1992. It extends in the heart of the Verbano Cusio Ossola province, just 100 Km away from Milan. It is the largest wild area of Italy, with a parched and scarcely reachable territory, a unique valley where endless woods, clear waters and undisputed silences walk everywhere with you. Anyway, the Val Grande is also history, it is the long account of a civilization made of shepherds and foresters that we can discover through the vestiges that have been left in centuries. This is why the Val Grande before being a park, is a valley of great emotions.
Among its purposes the Park Institution wants to promote the scientific research activity, above all in the naturalistic field: the richness of this vegetation and the variedness of blooms, thanks to the influence of the nearby Lake Maggiore, represent one of the major attractions of its territory.
The park is also an extraordinary outdoor museum of the past alpine civilization that today has been brought back to life by some new “taste pioneers”, small entrepreneurs who express passion, typicalness, genuineness and a strong connection with the wild nature of this territory through their handicrafts, that are different kinds of cheese, bread, salami, honey and wine.
For this reason the Park Institution puts together the protection of the environmental and cultural heritage with the protection of its typical products, promoted, among other things, through the “The Taste’s Paths” exhibition. In fact, this year this important food-and-wine exhibition will take place again in September, October and November, in order to increase the value of the local and typical products. For the 2009 edition this activity expects the presence of 30 restaurants, among which even some farm holidays, some trattorie and alpine refuges, all of them present in this area.
Web site : www.parcovalgrande.it
