first If I showed you a "taste" of what you can see and discover the Ardivestra Valley, I am yet to give you some information on the other valley called the "Cup" I'm lucky to see my house (having the dual display .... I have this privilege, which is equivalent to the presence of 22 windows .. . all to clean pretty well!)
This side of my house faces the road ... at the bottom of the sign indicating the "center" of the country, "Costa-Galeazzi Knights" ... that crowding early morning ....:-)
Basically you can see the village of Fortunago .... there is a slight haze but these days the winter has taken a vacation!
The Valley Cup is one of the valleys of the lower hills. Start Fortunago, ( www.comunedifortunago.it ) where it begins to wind through the hills until you reach Borgo Priolo, from whom he joined another valley called "the Gravel Cup" , "laughed the gravel" or better "of Gravels of Montalto. After this union the valley continues to emerge in the Po Valley in the territory of Casteggio.
The "Val Hill Community Cup is a consortium of supra province of Pavia (130 km ²) located east of the river and south of the river Po Cup The community consists of the following municipalities: Borgo Priolo , Borgoratto Mormorolo, Montalto Pavese, Fortunago, Ruini, and Rocca Calvignano Susella. Montebello della Battaglia Montesegale and still not make it an official member.
countries: Italy
administrative regions: Lombardy
Territory: 7 municipalities in the province of Pavia
Capital: Borgo Priolo
Area: 130 km ²
Population: 5,257
density ab: ab. 40.44 km ²
The infrastructure of the valley, or the Provincial Road 203 "Valley Cup, starts in Casteggio and Battle of Montebello, and ends in the Town of Chapel Fortunago, but there ' is also the opportunity to continue to the Passo del Carmine, the road is not very large, and that is why the trucks of a certain width are practically forced to run on the road to Montalto Valley Gravel or on the road to Val Versa.
Castelli
* Montalto Pavese: Construction of stone and brick, featuring four towers, built in 1595, on the remains of a former medieval fortress, by Philip Belcredi at an altitude of 466 meters above sea level The castle is surrounded by a large park: to indicate the Italian garden and the garden. Montalto was then the Strozzi until 1617, then the Taverna (until 1630), regardless of Belcredi until the end of the eighteenth century. From about mid-nineteenth century belongs to the accounts Balduino, who provided restorations.
* Montebello della Battaglia: The current building looks like a Baroque villa, dating from the seventeenth / eighteenth century, the headquarters of a probable medieval fortress: it is of considerable size, with a large park adjoining private property.
* Montesegale: Gamberana fortress built on a hill by the country today is a complex of buildings dating from different periods and short private property.
* Stefanago (Borgo Priolo): The castle, situated on a hilltop, was renovated in 1477, but the tower dates from the twelfth century: is the site of a farm.
In the valley, like in all those Oltrepò is intensive cultivation of vineyards, although less than that present in adjacent Valley Gravels of Montalto. The valley wine indeed marks the border of East-West, ie between the eastern and intensely cultivated with vineyards, and West Valley Staffora, very little cultivated.
are mainly cultivated the vine (wine Oltrepò Pavese DOC), cherries and sugar beets. In hilly, with many vineyards, there are many wineries, which employ a fair amount of residents and move a decent turnover.
in the mountains, still working on small producers of cheese, honey, meats, fruit, producers have chosen to breed endangered native animals, producers who struggle with their work against the abandonment of the area and contribute to the recovery of idle land, and restaurateurs who use these products to revive the authentic dishes.
Some sell other products of this territory on which are locally called: the "Brasadè" and "Skit".
