Bassa Valtellina the place to see

The project “Bassa Valtellina the place to see” is developed in order to guide people’s eyes and perception towards pivotal elements in the landscape of the province of Sondrio, high Lombardy. The project wants to set a system of key places, possibly examples of the facets of this area, once focal for the agricultural development of the whole region.

In order to include a great part of these different actors of this landscape, intended here “as a theatre” (Eugenio Turri), the strategy is to define a slow mobility pathway in order to put in communication different functions and objects: the two antique and artistically representative churches of SS. Marco, Colombano and Gregorio in Mantello and Beata Vergine Immacolata in Andalo Valtellino, Adda rivershore surrounded by typical riparian vegetative species, and a wide spread and partly abandoned industrial area near Mantello. The possibility to frame the alpine landscape here is obtained thanks to trunks, canopies and undergrowth. Setting these different layers interacting with human sight the project wants to highlight the important features, sometimes forgotten, of the Bassa Valtellina elements coming both from the mountain and from the valley.

The project is one of the first outcomes of the new international Master in Science in Landscape Architecture _ Land Landscape Heritage by the AUIC School of the Politecnico di Milano. Land Landscape and Heritage puts in a nutshell an original combination of disciplines that are strictly related to the specificity of the Italian and European contexts and contemporary landscape challenges.