Lake Lago di Giacopiane in Valle Sturla Valley - Salvation from Heat, Fishing, Mushrooms and Wild Horses
(Where can I go from Rapallo, La Spice or Genoa).
How to get there
In the first half of August we fell on terrifying heat. The thermometer confidently approached the mark of 40 degrees. And so we ran into the mountains about 50 km from Genoa to the east along the coast and then rolled into the mountains. This piece of the coast is called Tigulia. In the Chiavari area there are free beaches equipped with shower and toilet beaches with small pebbles and can be descended by the machine. Tiguli Bay begins approximately Rapallo and Lavaguri, about the same distance from Genoa and La Spices. Therefore, I tied this story not to Genoa from which we left and not from La Spice, but to Rapallo.
The locality in the mountains where we turned from Chiavari called Borzonasca, but Lake Lago di Giacopiane (Jiacopian) is located even higher (about 1000 m above sea level). Administratively all refers to Genoa Province.
Where to stay and what to eat
We have chosen the authentic Hotel "Kaz Balsamiko" already a few kilometers per Borzonska, by the way with very high recalls on Booking, just 7 km from the lake, truth, by serpentine. There is a couple of hotels even closer to the lake, but slightly.
The hotel is located in a house folded from stones. He was 300 years old, before it was hlev and kept wines. In the rooms of shower, cold and hot water, washbasins are made of former petitions for animals, the walls are not plastered, overlapping from wood. The heat in the premises is not felt at all. In the cold season in each room there is a stove. The room for two in the peak of the season costs from 45-65 euros per day, for children there are extra 2 yarny beds or comfortable folding beds. Breakfast is already in price.
The welcoming owner of Sicilian, who traveled around the world, speaks English fluently. For breakfast: Honey of own production, cherry jam, its plum juice, tea or coffee, buns, croissants, crackers. Interest but that the seller of fresh fish comes in the morning. The owner can be ordered and lunch (especially meat) so as not to move to Borzonask. Among the guests we saw the French, Italians with children. The owner says that he often has Lithuanians, knows the word "cherry". By the way, he drives a brutal grappa, rather even a chance, and makes it with honey - just a mirroring drink! You can cook yourself, but then it prevents servicing other guests. But you can simply grill, just need to warn ...
Comprehensive menu in Tratatoria in Borzonsk, from pasta, main dishes, wine (excellent Barbaresko), fruits, coffee and dessert - 12 and 18 euros, the choice of the main dishes are large (Witterlo tonnato, slices of pink bifhtex, stuffed veal, etc.) . In a meat shop in Borzonsk, a huge selection of veal (inexpensive), pork, but we did not find lamb. Solkaski for frying, in comparison with German, too fast (apparently there is a veal), fruits of wine, cheeses, breshaol, authentic scrape - need to go down. Most of all I liked (beginning of August) Blue onions, peppers and peaches.
About Lake
The lake is considered a reserve. But for 5 euros, you can drive around the car and fish. By the way, you can catch a private pond near the hotel.
The upper lake is called Lago di Giacopiane. , Lower smaller, to reset the water - Lago Di Pian Sapeio (almost impossible to approach it). Height above sea level. 1020 m. Lakes with standing water, but the water is purest. You are not allowed to bathe, but everyone bathe. The truth of one of us before the blood was sanging some kind of fish.
Narrow road around the lake, you can get rid of parked. Lakes during the time of Italian fascism, the forces of unemployed in public works. So they cleared the zombine region. There are no mosquitoes on the lake and at the height of the hotel, but in Borzonsk there is. Lakes are supplied with fresh water and electricity all trigulia. The remnants of electricity generation takes Genoa. The pretty chapel in the middle of the dam (it can be passed when there are no cow hanging there) is built at the same time and is called the "Temple of Freedom".
Wild camping lakes around. Officially, no one allowed him, but no one chases and its presence is noted even in Italian wiki. Glory to the lake - fishing. Huge carps, trout and cereals. In the fall, when heat (the mountains are delayed) and rains - around, around the region a huge amount of white and oh. Especially a lot of mushrooms in chestnut and beech forests. There are still some endemic views of Rosyanka and other plants. There are pedestrian routes around the forest, such as stone with magnetic properties, etc. Sources with spring water are on the way to the lake, I did not see on the lake.
Dam
Lay Lake
Upper lake
About horses
Since 2012, there is a project on rastyling project, that is, to move the preserved wild rocks, but dusted artificially, back to the wild. Therefore, half-dog horses run around the lake. These are not Mustang. On the Internet it is written that these are the famous half-dog horses of Sardinia and there are many photos on the Internet. But those small horses we have seen were not henned, but white-gray. According to the form they were similar to the famous French semi-dog horses Camga. More precisely, you can learn from those who breed them: Paola Marinari and Evelina Isola: [email protected], Tel 3351256403, 3366856423. Horses and cows, unfortunately, "climbed" convenient approaches to water (but not everywhere, Apparently fear fishermen). But this is a reserve! In general, this is an Italian rural depth in the Ligurian Mountains, popular with tourists