On Sunday, just the day after Julia arrived in Italy, her new family took her to play in the snow in the Bosco del Cansiglio. The Cansiglio is the second largest forest (bosco) in Italy. Click
here to see where Cansiglio is located in Italy.While in the summer it is a green area of pasture and woodland, in the winter the Cansiglio plateau turns into one of the coldest corners of the Alps.
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| Julia is the one with the blue jacket! |
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| It was cold! |
When the snow finally melts away, if you like to play golf, in the middle of the plateau there is one of Europe's most beautiful 18 hole high altitude Golf Course. Many international tournaments take place on this course.
I also like to visit the small Natural History Museum and the Cansiglio Botanic Garden which contains a good selection of the plants that can be found in the Oriental Alps.
Un po' di storia (a little bit of History): starting from the first centuries after the Year One Thousand, Venice (Repubblica Serenissima) gathered and maintained one of the most prominent fleets in the world, on both the commercial and the naval side.
This meant a continuous and massive request of spruce, fir and larch trees for the ships' masts and of beech trunks for rows.
To fulfill these needs, the Repubblica Serenissima began to exploit the Cansiglio Forest, later called the “Foresta dei Dogi” or Doge's Forest.
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