It is a beautiful sunny Sunday and with the children we set off for a mountain trip. Our destination is Malborghetto where we have discovered a mini-trekking trail suitable for young trekkers' shorter legs. It has a very special name: Animalborghetto.

We park the car in the square in front of the inn and head for the stone doorway of casa Krahvogl. To our great surprise, you are welcomed here by a huge brown bear! It is a hand-painted wooden silhouette that depicts the great animal full size, and as we continue on our way, we find more, Animalborghetto is a path along which you can admire, faithfully portrayed, all the wild animals that inhabit these places: there are foxes , lynx, roe deer and wild boar. The path continues slightly uphill, but thanks to the company of all these animals—as though by magic—none of our children complain about being tired, even though they are usually lazy.

We enter the woods refreshed by the branches of majestic pines, hornbeams and ash trees and suddenly we see a small cottage: it is the home of the fairies of the forest!

The kids rush ahead to play: they run in and out, open the windows, prepare coffee, and chat with the silhouettes of fawns and squirrels. It's really hard to distract them from their imagined world! The route ends immediately after the Calvario chapel from which you can enjoy a beautiful view of the whole valley.

We are enchanted by the bright green of the meadows and go back along the forest road that leads us to the end of the village, where there is a meadow in which children can enjoy themselves running through the rustling grass trying to catch butterflies and grasshoppers. We conclude the circuit crossing Malborghetto to arrive at the Palazzo Veneziano, home of the Ethnographic Museum, where you can continue your visit. It is already lunchtime, so we decide to stop in the shade of the imposing old lime tree in the courtyard of the palace and eat sandwiches on the grass.

It was a magical day both for the children, who had fun discovering the animals in the woods and benefited from the pure air of these places, and for ourselves, as we could share a little of this fairy tale with them.