Roccolo del Sauch
This site, for years an observatory and environmental educational centre, can be reached on foot in the woods of the Val di Cembra. It is a very ancient and scenic system for catching birds, active until the end of the 1960s.
The Roccolo del Sauch, in the Cembra Valley, is an ancient system for catching birds. It is constructed of living plants, with beech and fir trees that have been specially intertwined and pruned to create a walkable archway with a grassy clearing and a small building in the middle. When the birds landed in the space in the middle of the gallery, the "scaruracchio" was waved from the house, preceded by the bird catcher's whistle; the escape in a horizontal direction led the birds straight towards an almost invisible net, stretched between the arches of the gallery.
Bird catching has been forbidden since 1968 and the site, owned by the Brugnara family, was first transformed into an observatory and an environmental educational centre and today, with the closure of the centre, it can be seen by all the hikers in the area. In the direct vicinity, for a typical lunch, the Rifugio Sauch.
STRENGTH
The possibility of discovering an ancient system for catching birds, now banned.
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Great for families
