Un futuro per i roccoli di Montenars

The project focuses on the roccoli, arboreal engineering works used for bird-catching placed on passes and ridges along the most frequented migration routes. Only some of them have survived well preserved to the present day. The  roccoli are remarkable landscape elements for their sizes and fascinating shapes. The purpose of this initiative is to rediscover the roccoli as elements that increase the value of the landscape, through a participatory process that suggested the conversion of bird-catching sites from a scientific, educational and tourist perspective, aiming to stress how the local community perceive and give value to the territory, and to recover its history. The project consisted in the conversion and enhancement of existing sites, restoring a loop trail for connecting the surviving roccoli. Today the roccoli house courses on subjects relating to the landscape, cultural events such as readings, performances and concerts, training courses on pruning, tree maintenance and
landscape “building sites” open to the public for the construction and restoration of dry-stonewalls. The roccoli have become natural and historical monuments, as they are an essential component in the living environment of the population and testify to the strong bond between the inhabitants and the environment where they live.