Pasturo

Italiano

Pasturo is an Italian town of just under 2000 inhabitants in the province of Lecco[^][^] in Valsassina on the slopes of the Northern Grigna, the starting point for many excursions. The eastern slope of the mountain is in its territory, also called monte di Pasturo or the Pasturo mountains. The town is located at an altitude of 641 metres, to the north not far away at 615 meters above sea level is Baiedo,[^] the only hamlet with a inhabited centre.
The name Pasturo, Pastür in the Valsassinese dialect, seems to indicate the fertility of the pastures, the plains and the mountains.[^] Cattle breeding and milk processing are still today one of the main activities. In 1920 the Emilio Mauri factory was built,[^] in 1960 the marketing of Carozzi began,[^] two realities of the dairy industry known throughout the national territory. For almost a hundred years, on the last weekend of September, the Valsassinesi Zootechnical Events have been held.[^]

In the center of the town there is the Church of Sant'Eusebio rebuilt at the end of the 1500s on a pre-existing one from the 1300s; the saint[^] is the patron saint of Pasturo, whose anniversary is on August 2nd. Great devotion is for the Madonna della Cintura, to whom a small sanctuary or church of San Giacomo apostolo is dedicated, a few meters from the parish church. The statue of the Madonna is solemnly carried in procession on the first Sunday of September. Anyone traveling along the Valsassina provincial road or entering the town cannot fail to notice the presence of billboards, panels, itineraries with photos, phrases, poems by Antonia Pozzi, who spent her holidays in Pasturo in the eighteenth-century family villa. The poetess and her parents are buried in the Pasturo cemetery.

In the valley flows the Pioverna torrent which flows to the north into Lake Como in Bellano. Beyond the stream, in a large flat area in the municipality of Barzio, the Sagra delle Sagre[^] is held for about ten days between August 15th, a rich display of typical products of the valley and beyond, culinary such as cheeses, and crafts, such as knives. The fair and gastronomic event attracts many visitors from all over Lombardy. Here is also the headquarters of the Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino and Riviera Mountain Community.

A cultural reference is the quarterly newspaper Il Grinzone,[^] available online, which alongside current news, recalls some historical fact of the country, curiosities, descriptions of particular characters, excerpts from poems.

The country for me

Pasturo is an agricultural center not spoiled by tourism protected by the Grigna, where residents still speak to each other in dialect. I walked through the narrow, shady streets of the town that converge in Piazza Vittorio Veneto with the war memorial, in the Church of Sant'Eusebio I admired frescoes; I also visited the cemetery. Mainly, it is the starting point for the Grignone.

When I was leaving Milan, it was essentially the bus stop in front of the Albergo Grigna. Back and forth from Barzio, Pasturo is Via Roma, the Cariola torrent and Via Alessandro Manzoni, with Villa Pozzi and the fountain in which I quench my thirst with a vase of geraniums above it. The country is for me Via Cantellone, the two brown arrows Grigna Sett.le and Pialeral, the horizontal signpost 33 on the wall, the beginning of the Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral. The mountain reflects the history, the Christian faith, the life and the economy of the village, through the surnames of the fallen of the Second World War in the church of the Alpini in Cornisella, Agostoni, Pigazzi, Platti, Ticozzi, Ticozzelli and all the other comrades, San Calimero, the Madonna della Cintura, the cows grazing, those who work hard by cutting and collecting hay in the meadows.

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