Accompagna questo mio post,dall'ultimo album di De Gregori "Per brevità chiamato artista", una stupenda melodia dalle radici popolari , certamente ispirata alla tradizione abruzzese di "Vola vola vola",e che sembra provenire dai primi lavori del Principe; un riferimento al pavone, alla nostalgia del passato alla ricerca delle origini.
7-04-2009 Soriso-Pogno-Bugnate-Auzate-Soriso di 10,3 km. Partenza ore 14,14 Arrivo 17,44 Tre ore e trenta, comprese le soste......
Ci trasferiamo in auto, con Arnaldo ed Eugenio, fino a Soriso, dove parcheggiamo davanti alla headquarters of the bank, this beautiful old villa and the "wall", complete with battlements of a castle that I can not define or re-restored old building recently. I incline to the latter, but I'd like to be denied by some who read these lines Sorisese.
The weather does not bode well. To the north, where we're headed, gray clouds announce water. We help eachother with courage and we begin our walk along the narrow streets of small town that has become well known for the famous inn restaurant "Al Soriso" joined the club four stars in the Michelin guide, a prestigious award it shares with only three other lucky throughout Italy. We leave the country and then we enter the dirt road that leads towards the valley of "Grua", a stream which will lead to nell'Agogna Borgomanero near the Oratory, and cutting Hill Soriso Auzate and from that of textured, our target return. We go down to it, until you reach the bridge that crosses it, near the junction of the branch that comes from Pogno with what comes from Cremosina.
The stream, the "Grua" (do not know whether to use the male or female, against him ...) has a story, quite recently, evidence of nefarious wickedness that man has used against him. The area we're going to meet soon, is one of the most flourishing, from the industrial point of view, the Novarese. Here is a small miracle of production has led to the "district of the tap": a whole strip of land located mainly on the western slopes of Lake Orta, but you can tell which extends from Omegna Borgomanero up to and beyond. In the sixties, growing almost wild in the sector has created an incredible proliferation of companies and workshops (by invoking a huge mass of immigrants from the south) which gave prosperity and benefit of the people living there. But even with the welfare of pollution ... We know that to be a tap over, it should also be plated, ie, make it bright, shiny and corrosion proof. To do this exist and chrome plating baths, whose manufacturing processes, unfortunately, give rise to toxic discharges. Well, in those years, the easiest way to not have problems was to download the sewage waste and the rinse water in the streams in the area! The "Grua" was one of the exhaust valves for the local industry. The consequences of this destruction, we are still serving a day in the area Borgomanerese of Beatrice, where the river flows ... Fortunately, thanks to the mobilization della gente dei luoghi, ed alle nuove leggi antinquinamento, il fenomeno è scomparso. Oggi tutte le rubinetterie adottano per i loro impianti galvanici il sistema a scarico zero. Si ricicla tutta l'acqua utilizzata depurandola in colonne di resine scambiatrici di ioni e si distillano gli ultimi eluati fino ad avere dei residui concentrati tossici che vengono destinati alle discariche controllate da una parte, ed acqua distillata che ritorna a far parte del ciclo produttivo, dall'altra. Ci siamo accorti, nell'osservare da vicino il corso della "Grua" che effettivamente, oggi, le acque scorrono pulite (chiare fresche e dolci acque come direbbe il poeta) ed il torrente è rinato dando ospitalità a diverse forme di vita a partire by fish (spotted several "varone" beautiful lively).
This section of trail is particularly beautiful. Runs along the river, which flows lush and fat (this year, all rivers are "fed") and created the transition from the Lake Orta dell'Agogna the valley, creating two walls enough steep, as a kind of canjon. Ascend slowly to Pogno reachable in a short time, before being passed near a fence where live, barricaded, two donkeys, the sheep and dogs. Carini, pacifiers, with long hair: look like ponies. 
little further pianorino We come in where there is Pogno. In the background, the two mountain peaks that tower over you see is Mount Avignon, my goal not unusual: I think it has reached at least four times last year. 
We walk now towards the road leading to Bugnate. Even in these parts of the incivility "monnezzari" gives a fine show of herself, televisions, plastic bags, et cetera, "decorate" the banks and slope lining the road. There are no words to deprecate their customs and walking .... look at the landscape that appears before and while not a good day, we admire what nature has to offer. In addition to this we can also still see the great work of preparation for the establishment of another industrial site that is linked with the recent San Maurizio, this territory of the town of Pogno. Now, despite the recession, the work is progressing rapidly even if the work had already been planned many years ago. 
way, they finally arrive at the pond Bugnate (as signs), bog lake (as some maps), Lake of the peacocks (according to Verna), or Lake Constance (as is clear from this rare postcard the early twentieth century). 
We are now attracted the unpleasant and excessive noise to the peacocks that issue. It 's true that, as narrated by Phaedrus, you can not have all the qualities and beauty concentrated in one person. Imagine if the peacock also possessed the chirping of the nightingale ... A bit too much, do not you think? My curiosity to see and photograph them up close, and maybe watch a (...) "pavoneggiante" wheel, pushes me to get close to the fence of convenience and entertaining chat with the gardener who is clearing the undergrowth and setting fire to undergrowth . Arnaldo discover that it acknowledges and even identifies him as a brother of the neighbor's daughter ... So we ask if you can take pictures of peacocks, maybe you enter the property. We said no, but come ... Then drive along the fence outside of Eugene and industry to make several clicks. 
The peacocks are beautiful. Difficult to return to the front. As soon as we feel too close, they fly away, and that flight ... in a second on the roof of the house. As for the wheel, then ... nothing to do! I believe that, not having noticed any lapwing close by, they did not possess the right stimuli to "show off" with their possible companions for sure we had no power to get them to explain that wonderful tail that judging by their length, would take unbelievable proportions.
When we least expect it, here is the gardener who comes to us and gives us the good news that the lady owner of the estate allows us to come and go around the lake ... So it is not so surly as we had painted.
We take the opportunity now! So we see the male swan that swims around nervously to the island where his brooding mate. It may be that in future may also become the Swan Lake ... The potentials are
Due parole anche sulle origini del lago. Esiste una bolla sorgiva che mantiene il ricambio dell'acqua. A sud una piccola diga contiene e regola il livello del laghetto, lasciando defluire l'acqua in eccesso, che si convoglia, attraverso una chiusa, in un rigagnolo che andrà a raccogliersi nella "Grua". 
A sud-ovest, una costruzione rotonda,in fase di sistemazione, simpatica, denominata Villa Ombrosa. All'esterno tavoli e panchine per consumarvi rilassanti pic-nic.
Arriviamo alla sponda occidentale del lago ed ammiriamo da qui la residenza padronale, con darsena e barca incluse; i pavoni che perch on the balcony (we will have counted a dozen), the beautiful pine forest and an incredible system for reporting of hours. Twelve bells, two of which are larger, are arranged on a support structure, next to the house, and are electrically connected to a clockwork device that scans the chimes: presumably a different bell for every hour. 
If you click on the images, magnification, you will find peacocks everywhere ... From here we see that other workers are beautifying the estate, with maintenance work. We also note in the waters of lake trout giant who, according to the Guardian, non troveranno mai un amo al quale finire la loro esistenza: nessun pescatore ha mai approdato a queste rive... Paperelle gioiose si avvicinano all'acqua civettuole.
Terminato il giro , arriviamo presso il cancello di ingresso proprio nel momento in cui la proprietaria, dalla macchina, lo sta aprendo. Ne approfittiamo per andare a ringraziare la signora per la cortesia che ci ha dimostrato e per scambiare due parole in convenevoli. Usciamo quindi per riprendere la nostra strada, felici per aver visitato un luogo che avevamo sempre solo intravisto di passaggio. Posto alcune foto panoramiche del laghetto dei pavoni. 
The time that had threatened rain, is coming to beautiful and when we get on top of the hill on which stands the chapel of the Madonna della Guardia, reappears in the warm sun with the warm rays. To get there just as I struggled to overcome the slope is quite steep. We relax enjoying the scenery of Lake Orta seen from the south, although the haze prevents us from fully appreciating it. 
This place did exclaim Vittorio Emanuele III "This is a strange piece of paradise" phrase which is stated in a plaque near the chapel. 8-IX-1907. 
The fatigue begins to be felt and the way back to Soriso is still long. To the south the sky was serene and take the opportunity to take a view towards the plain, and Gozzano Borgomanero. 
down the hill, and we proceed to cross Bugnate Auzate, but not before trying a short cut path through the woods. Failed attempt, we continued on the asphalt. 
Glimpse into Auzate and Soriso, the final goal in the background then take the path that descends to the valley of "Grua," we reach the Conc Mongini, beautifully restored farmhouse with features sculptures on the wall fence of the house at the foot of the steep final climb that takes us back to Soriso.
tired, but happy to have completed this walk and have passed another important test, I get in the car with his brothers and return home. older posts 
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