Valtellina (Lombardia)

Along the lined walls is where the history of Valtellina is rooted. The dry stone walls on the Rhaetian mountainside are true pieces of rural engineering and represent an historical model of anthropization of the alpine landscape. They are an example of the affinity between man and mountain and the endless relationship between the wild and the determination of the people who live in it. There are 820 cultivated hectares along the rocky Rhaetian slopes, from West to East (from Buglio in Monte to Tirano), from the bottom to the top (rising from 200 metres up to nearly 800 metres altitude).