Late spring from Tarcento to Nimis

Slow Tour

2 May 2017

Slow Tour

Late spring from Tarcento to Nimis

An afternoon’s exploration from the plains of Friuli to the Resia mountain pass, seeking out crocuses in bloom. The route was chosen by doing. After Tarcento, having left Ciseris behind, our first halt with the car, following the direction marked by a wooden arrow. Ten minutes of easy and clear path amid crocuses, primroses, liverworts and violets, and then we head into the woods, towards what sounds like a loud thundering. Finally, we are granted a vision of a corner of paradise: a noisy waterfall tumbles down from a dam into an emerald pool before carving a riverbed between the white boulders.

We were about halfway up. To our right was the water of the Torre torrent, which the skill of Arturo Malignani exploited through the construction of a dam and its reservoir between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Crosis waterfall is artificial: with its 38- metre drop, it is apparently the highest artificial waterfall in Italy.

A silk effect is assured for photographers. We are back on the road in the car, following the Torre, which tumbles and cascades between the white limestone boulders. Another stop further north, so we can reach the crystal clear waters. We have fun jumping from rock to rock like chamois, believing ourselves acrobatics as we feel our way along well-laid wooden walkways. In a fenced-in, disused little house there was a window where passersby had laid a heart-shaped plait.

We were close to the mixed forest, in the Alta Val Torre, bordered to the north by Val Resia, to the east by Slovenia and the district of Taipana, to the south by the country towns of Tarcento and Nimis and the Friulian plains, and to the west by the mountains of Gemona and Venzone. An enchanting setting. There were few colours in mid-March this year: the white of the stone, the green edges between the impetuous splashes, stylised branches and trees, small fields of crocuses looking like lavender in flower.

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Anna Maria Ometto

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Sommelier, food and wine expert. Representative and president of professional associations. Adopted by Friuli Venezia Giulia, where she had a career in teaching, she tries to juggle her family roles and her commitments with regional promotion associations. She lives in the province of Pordenone.