REPORTAGE
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from Paverno of Valgatara to Canzago of Marano inside the quarters of Valpolicella
Track n.10/11 from Paverno, Gnirega, Colombare, Canzago, Ravazzol, Agnella, Paverno
About 5 km- 2h30 Easy

You can park your car in Valgatara, behind the main church, and you can start walking northwards until the quarter Paverno. Then you can turn right until reach the wash-houses, from there turn left, and go on uphill, walking along Campagnola's Villa.

 

Paverno, wash-houses
Paverno

In this street, you look up on the right where you can notice a valuable fresco that portrays Our Lady Madonna with the child Jesus between saints Rocco and Bartolomeo; an unusual dating written upon Zugno's newsstand '(june) 1575' probably is not referred to this fresco, a little more recent. Leaving the quarter, the street becomes a track that we can follow walking along a stream, hidden by the vegetation.

Paverno,fresco of Blessed Virgin between st.Rocco and st.Bartolomeo
Gnirega

Arrived at the base of a knoll, turn right to reach Gnirega quarter, then turn left, pass in the front of its fountain, then in the front of the oratory until Marognole quarter; from there you can walk down between vineyards until Bignele, passing close to the quarte of Passi, that unfortunately you can't cross (remain in the left side of 'marogna', a long wall made by outdistanced stones); then you can walk through the small bridge reaching the hairpin curve of the provincial street to Marano, where at the crossroads to Novaie there's a capital of the 1886, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.

capital of the Blessed Virgin
Villa Porta-Rizzini

Continue towards Marano along a provincial way until the first curve, where, turning left, you can enter in Canzago. You immediately see the big Villa Lorenzi, now Benati, of 1790 in neoclassic style; then on the right side there's Villa Porta, now Rizzini, of the XVII century, with its scenic staircase, close to the big chapel dedicated to Saint Charles.

 

Before walk along the track southward, let's take a look to the beautiful view of the underneath valley and around you there are also some little streams that will form Dugal river, energetic source of the water mills of Prognol, Agnela and Valgatara. Then you will walk until Pianaura quarter, that you will keep on the left side to reach in few minutes a crossroads: continue walking on the left

 

Pianaura quarter
Ravazzol, wash-houses

street that downhill brings you to to the quarter Ravazzal, centre of old origins, where there's also a fountain to quench one's thirst with also connected wash-houses made with local stones. From this point, walking on the left side, you go down to Prognol, next to this memorial slab of 1759; here water of Dugal river was regulated to satisfy different needs until some years ago.

 

Prognol,memorial slab of 1759
Agnela,boundary wall along the provincial road

Let's walk on the way southward until Agnela quarter, old and typical rural court restructured, with an old water mill fed by the water of a stream that comes out from Dugal, now almost disappeared. From this place, turn eastward to come back to Paverno, passing close to an old fountain.

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recia de ua as Barbarani said

...................................Map of the track in PDF................................

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