Here some things to see in Valpolicella: Parco delle Cascate di Molina The Molina Waterfall Park is located south-east of Molina, in Vaccarole, and covers 80.000 sqm. It includes the last part of the Molina Valley and the area that connects it with the Cesara Valley and the “Vaio delle Scalucce” . The final emersion of the Lessini region took place during the Tertiary era, 25 -30 million years ago, and the rocks in this area, since the moment of their subaerial exposition, were subjected to the action of atmospheric agents which caused their modification and fragmentation. The hydrographic system of the highest part of the Fumane valley has a fluvial origin and displays a juvenile morphology, with steep walls and V-shaped tight bottoms. The waterfalls were originated along the rivers because of the presence of rocks with different levels of erodibility. The clayey waterproof layers of the Biancone limestone prevent meteoric water from filtering under the ground, thus causing the creation of springs. Due to the action of the stream, we can admire characteristic shapes such as furrows, niches, and erosion materials, visible not only on today’s river’s course, but also on the side walls, testifying to the river’s course in the past. This territory is characterized by its abundance of water, thanks to the existence of perennial springs north of Molina. Apart from the bubbly waterfalls, the Park also offers a landscape of woods and meadows, crossed by torrents and small rivers, and characterized by the green color of the varied vegetation and the grey of the rocks. In the Park you can see a synthesis of the low-mountain landscape, where several paths and itineraries can offer visitors the calm solemnity of a crashing waterfall here, a colorful, full of flowers meadow between a wood and a precipice there, or the whirls of a tumultuous torrent. Meridiana di Negrar The monumental sundial that greets the visitor arriving in Negrar is a sculpture-tool of international importance. About seven meters high with a diameter of five and a total weight of about 2000 kilograms, combining “contemporary” design of the “historicity” of science that encompasses. From a historical perspective and cultural object contains science gnomonic (related to astronomy), in terms of design is a harmonious contemporary sculptures.On the cusp of the object has a great “steering winds” that indicates precisely the direction of the winds. The helm wind, 4 meters long and weighing 54 kg, close to the sculpture Kinetic Art. The base that supports the sundial is cylindrical in shape with two recesses corresponding to the cardinal points north and south The basement is fully lined with porphyry and has a molding along the circumference whose purpose is to formal-concept of embedding, and then exploit, a precious stone for Negrar: the stone of Prun. The laying of tiles in stone Prun is deliberately apparently “dry” in memory of the most traditional rural building.The Sundial Negrar then rests on the base stone and minimal winding through three “sails” of steel that, seen from the front, and nearly disappear visually raise the object up. Going with the look then find the sundial itself, whose structure is not closed circles (like suggest the banality static-constructive), but rather open. This particular style raises two points of interest: an engineering, the other formal. Structurally, the object is important to resist twisting forces, sometimes amplified by the action of the winds. The structure is composed of a particular beam internal tubular sections supplemented by variable spacing “strengthening bar”. These artifices created to satisfy a specific aesthetic that aims, from a visual-perceptual, to reorient the object to an “air” and “light” able to “shine” look to the hills beyond valuable not a piece of furniture so dominant, but an integral and elaborates.The formal search was completed in color with a unique blend of paints metameric (metameric = changing colors at different light of day and seasons). The Monumental Sundial of Negrar was designed by Giuseppe Ferlenga; its implementation have worked about 30 selected staff of technicians, master blacksmiths, painters, builders and assemblers. The appearance design and prototyping lasted about nine months, the realization about four.The tool provides precise time solar noon Negrar true, the summer solstice and that of indeed, the equinoxes and the wind direction. To explain “how the law” is placed in the pedestrian area south of the instrument, a special bulletin explanatory.Despite its youth this sundial has already been reviewed in prominent international journals such as the Spanish “La Busca de Paper” was then being studied by some of the most illustrious names in this field ( citing Professor Reinhold Kriegler) and attracts more and more frequently, students and tourists. Pieve di San Floriano: The church of St. Floriano, Romanesque architecture masterpiece, almost a copy of the famous St. Zeno in Verona.St. Floriano is one of the numerous stops of a guided itinerary in Valpolicella, a land not only famous for its great wines like the Amarone, but also for its ancient history going back to Roman Age and for its gorgeous villas, many of which nowadays host famous wineries. Ponte di Veja: The ponte di Veja is a pictoresque and majestic natural arch of rock, which was formed thanks to the collapse of the inner part of a huge karstic cavern. It is located in a small valley at 602 m.a.s.l., its height is 50 m and the arch has a thickness of about 10 m and a medium width of 17 m. Underneath the fallen rocks of the vault and inside two karstic caverns (the one in the north has a length of 170 m) at the base of the bridge several signs of the middle and lower Paleolithic period have been found. In the course of history the ponte di Veja has been visited by illustrious people: in fact, traditionally Dante Alighieri was inspired by the Ponte di Veja for the description of the “Malebolge” in his “Divina Commedia” , while Andrea Mantenga portrayed it several times in his paintings Pojega Garden: near Fratelli Vogadori estate there is the Pojega Garden, it was bought in 1649 by the Counts Rizzardi, living in Verona at the time. The gardens, commissioned in 1783 by Antonio Rizzardi to Luigi Trezza (1752-1823), represent the last masterpiece of Italian gardens, known for its green amphitheatre and its spectacular perspectives (original drawings in the Biblioteca Civica of Verona). The surface is of 54000 sqm (13.3 acres): temple, theatre, walls, galleries and belvedere have been built transforming and bending trees, hedges and water into a phantasmagorical show machine. The villa itself was restored in around 1850, with cross reference to the venitian Quattrocento, to a design by the architect Filippo Cesare Messedaglia (1823-1901). The gardens of Pojega have been recently opened to the public for visits and wine tastings.
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