Sentiero della pastorizia

Description

This trail connects the Schioppo rest area with the Pastoral Ecomuseum of Rendinara. The route, of historical and anthropological interest, allows you to explore the traces left by pastoralism, still very much alive in Rendinara.

The trail begins to climb through a mixed forest, an area rich in medicinal plants and long frequented by the monks of Trisulti Abbey as a place to gather herbs. You then reach chestnut groves, both for firewood and fruit, followed by a beech forest, where numerous springs bubble up between the large rocks that have fallen from the rock faces. Beyond these rocks, near the village of Rendinara, you can see a system of dry stone walls that once marked the boundaries of cultivated areas and are now completely covered in moss and lichen.

Beech trees grow in very different forms, depending on whether they are solitary specimens—patriarchs of the forest with columnar trunks—or slender, dense coppice trees that branch out from a single trunk.
In Morino, the forest has always been an important economic resource, from the woodland masters who felled the trees to make railway sleepers, to the charcoal burners who produced charcoal, "transportable and marketable energy."