| Tramonti di Sotto | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Friuli Venezia Giulia | |
| Territory | Friuli valleys and Dolomites | |
| Altitude | 366 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 85.55 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 356 (2019) | |
| Name inhabitants | Tramontini | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0427 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 33090 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Santa Maria Assunta (August 15) | |
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Tramonti di Sotto is a center of the Friuli Venezia Giulia.
To know
Background
In 1976 the town was devastated by the Friuli earthquake, which caused enormous collapses and damage.
How to orient yourself
Tramonti di Sotto: full screen map.Its municipal territory includes numerous hamlets or inhabited localities: Beloz, Barnazai, Brandolin, Campone centro, Chiarchià, Chiarandin, Chiasars, Cleva, Clevata, Comèsta, Cotel, Faidona, Ferrara, Gai, Grisa, I Piani, Martin, Matan, Miâr , Moschiasinis, Muinta, Ombrena, Pagnac, Pala, Palcoda, Pecol di Selva, Pra di Leva, Prapitol, Sacchiaz, San Vincenzo, Sclaf, Selva, Sgualdin, Sghittosa, Sialin, Sottoriva, Stalla del Cont, Tamar, Tamarat, Tramonti di Mezzo, Tridis, Valent, Vuâr, Zanon and Zulian-
How to get
By plane
- 1 Friuli-Venezia Giulia Airport, via Aquileia 60 (in Ronchi dei Legionari), ☎ 39 0481 773224.
- 2 Marco Polo Airport in Venice, viale Galilei (to Tessera), ☎ 39 041 2609260.
- 3 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
By car
- from Pordenone towards Maniago (SS 251), continue towards Meduno up to Tramonti di Sotto (SS 552).
- from Pordenone via Fiume Veneto (SS 13), take the freeway Cimpello/Sequals, Sequals exit, continue for Meduno up to Tramonti di Sotto (SS 552).
- from Udine towards Dignano (SS 464), up to Spilimbergo, continue for Sequals, towards Meduno up to Tramonti di Sotto (SS 552).
- from Tolmezzo towards Villa Santina (SS 52), continue towards Socchieve, take the Monte Rest Pass (SS 552), and the Val Tramontina up to Tramonti di Sotto.
On the train
- 4 Railway station (in Maniago). The closest station is that of Maniago on the railway line Sacile - Pinzano. From 6 July 2012 to 9 December 2017, the railway service was replaced by self-rides due to the diversion of a train due to a landslide on the railway site near the Meduno station.
- With the partial reopening of the line, from 10 December 2017 the station is again served by Regional trains in service between Sacile and Maniago. In addition to serving the city in which it is located, the station plays an important role as a hub for the surrounding valleys.
By bus
- Direct and daily connections by bus from Udine, Pordenone, Spilimbergo is Maniago.
How to get around
What see
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- 1 Palcoda (Ghost village). Palcoda was part of the municipality of Tramonti di Sotto. Now it is a suggestive one ghost city, as the country has long been abandoned.
- Located in the upper valley of the Chiarzò stream, it can only be reached through the paths that start from Tramonti di Sotto and Campone.
- Already frequented by passing shepherds in the fifteenth century, Palcoda was permanently inhabited only from the seventeenth century, thanks above all to the work of the Moruzzi and Masutti families; the latter always stood out as the most influential and richest in the center. In the eighteenth century Pàlcoda became a real village: the traditional primary activities (agriculture and breeding, especially goats), were also joined by other forms of economy such as the trade of straw hats, sold even in the markets of Northern Europe; there were also two furnaces, one of which was particularly powerful, and a mill.
- In 1780 Giacomo Masutti also erected a church dedicated to his patron saint. The number of inhabitants (called, according to the local dialect, Palcodans) fluctuated around one hundred units, with peaks of one hundred and fifty.
- In 1914 Pàlcoda still had 126 residents, but the crisis that followed the great war particularly affected the Friulian mountains, accentuating the phenomenon of emigration. The town was completely abandoned when, in 1923, the last of the Masutti left.
- During the Second World War it became a refuge for partisans, who exploited its difficult accessibility.
- 2 Church of San Giacomo, in ghost town by Palcoda. The church, built in 1780 by Giacomo Masutti, kept various art objects such as three statues of saints, now placed in the parish of Tramonti di Sotto. Reduced to ruins after the abandonment of the town, it was recently recovered. On 14 May 2011 the church was inaugurated, completely restored between 2010 and 2011 by Antonio Masutti.
- Lake of Redona (Lake of Tramonti). It is an artificial lake located in the Tramontina valley between the municipalities of Tramonti di Sopra and Tramonti di Sotto formed following the construction in 1952 of a dam in Ponte Racli. The crowning is accessible, and is part of the access roadway between the state road 552 of Passo Rest, (now regional), the hamlets Chievolis, Inglagna, Posplata and the other two hydroelectric plants not far away that exploit the Meduna river course: the lake of Cà Selva and the lake of Cà Zul.
- The damming of the Meduna led to the abandonment of the old village of Movada, whose remains still emerge when the lake is dry.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
In Val Tramontina some local dishes are typical.
The Pitina
It is a smoked meatball originally from this valley that has obtained the IGP mark. According to the IGP specification it can be produced in the municipal areas of Andreis, Barcis, Cavasso New, Cimolais, Claut, Erto and Casso, Frisanco, Maniago, Meduno, Montereale Valcellina, Tramonti di Sopra and Tramonti di Sotto.
In the past, when a chamois or roe was killed in the mountain valleys, if a sheep or a goat (too precious to be buried) got injured or sick, it was a must to find a long-term conservation method. Pitina and its variants were born precisely from the need to preserve the meat. The animal was boned and the meat finely shredded in the pestadora (a hollowed log of wood). The meat was added salt, garlic, chopped black pepper. Small meatballs were made from the minced meat, passed in corn flour and smoked on the mantelpiece, burning mainly mountain pine wood. Once smoked, the pitina could last for many months and therefore became a reference in the diet of the tramontini.
It seems that already in the first half of the 1800s it was in use among the people who lived in the hamlets of Frassaneit, a locality located in the municipality of Tramonti di Sopra.
Originally, pitina was composed exclusively of sheep or goat meat or high mountain ungulate game (chamois or roe deer). The shape of a meatball is due to the fact that in mountain areas there was no possibility of finding guts to stuff the meat and then store it, so this expedient was used to make up for this lack. The preparation did not require special equipment so it was possible to prepare them anywhere, even in huts far from inhabited centers. This normally happened without a precise program, so a goat breaking a leg, a calving disease or the killing of a chamois, were the occasional condition for the immediate preparation of Pitinas.
The Pistum
Typical product of Val Tramontina, it is a cream that is made with turnip leaves and polenta flour.
At the beginning of autumn the turnip leaves were collected and blanched in the polenta pot. After having drained the leaves, they were superimposed in a container that was closed with a wooden cover, on which a weight was placed. The container with the pressed leaves was then taken outside to freeze the leaves. The more the temperature dropped during the winter, the more, according to popular belief, the pistum it would have been tasty. Starting more or less from the Christmas period, the pistum was removed from the container in the necessary quantities. The leaves were cut into strips and then placed in the cauldron with the polenta broth to cook them. Then salt, pepper, a little lard and, if desired, a little garlic were added.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Antica Corte restaurant bar, Piazza S. Croce, 5.
39 0427 869020.
39 0427 869020.Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Campsite Valtramontina (in Sottoriva), ☎ 39 0427 869004.
Safety
- 5 Moret Pharmacy, via Pradileva 2, ☎ 39 0427 869417.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 6 Italian post, Via Roma, 1, ☎ 39 0427 869311.
Around
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