The spring transhumance of horses at Voltigno, with sdijuno – 9 June 2024

JUNE 9, 2024
TRANSHUMANITY OF HORSES AT VOLTIGNO, WITH SDIJUNO

The main experience of Pastoral Culture, transhumance today becomes a tourist and ancestral path that retraces the “calleso variaes”, i.e. ancient sheep tracks. The Terre Vestine are characterized by vast summer pastures at high altitude, the precious mountain pastures (Campo Imperatore, Voltigno, Valle d’Angri, Rigopiano). The use of this form of cyclical commuting of animals and men, better known as “transhumance”, already adopted in Roman times, seems to have actually been practiced since prehistoric times.
The roads through which the movements took place were the so-called “tratturi”, rudimentary roads almost always made up of unpaved paths, but simply dirt roads beaten by the trampling of numerous animals in their periodic comings and goings, but still delineated in such a way as to form a system infrastructure sufficiently branched to allow transhumance from the various mountain areas of Abruzzo.

THE TRANSHUMANITY OF HORSES
it will be held on 9 June 2024, from 9 am to 3 pm, in the Piana del Voltigno, in Carpineto della Nora
The cost per person is 35 euros and includes the tourist walk, the snack and the sdijuno vestino (two distinct tasting moments). Reductions: children 20 euros, children free
Info and reservations on 085 827 8444
The event is organized by the Tour Operator Wolftour and the ASD Valle Nora