It’s a building with a small church built in the 17th century by the Carlotti counts, which functioned both as a summer home and as an escape from the bubonic plague. They had understood that the disease was infectiously transmitted and had this getaway built in the mountains where they escaped for two whole years […]
This baito is located at an elevation of 1400 m and is surrounded by ample pastures and secular beech trees. You can reach this malga either from Prada or from Due Pozze, following the military road or the n° 655 path. Near Ortigara there is the church of Madonna […]
In 1627 the death of Vincenzo II Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, without any direct heirs to the duchy, unleashed a dispute over his succession. This culminated in 1630 with a siege by the Empire, which ultimately conquered and raided Mantua. Along with the German troops, however, also came the bubonic plague, which in one […]
