Today I am invited to lunch and an excursion to Val Bavona by Gabriele and his wife Patrizia. I interviewed Gabriele on my last trip to the Vallemaggia. We meet in the center of Maggia, where I have parked the car in a very small lot that is enhanced with this sculpture. Gabriele says it …
My first day in Ticino I’m going up to Bosco Guerin, the only German-speaking village in Italian-speaking Ticino. The Walsers came over the alps to settle here in the 1200s. Until recently Bosco Guerin, the highest village in Ticino at 1500 meters, was extremely isolated, so the original German language and customs remained relatively static …