It is called Ippotappa and is the latest novelty offered by the Nazionale bar in collaboration with Scavarda di Cavalchiusella
VISTRORIO. A stopover for horses and riders, called “Ippotappa”, was built in Vistrorio in a green space a few meters from the Nazionale, a bar in Largo Mentana 3. Explains Federico Steffenina, owner of the place he took over the helm two years ago : «Together with Guido Scavarda, of the Cavalchiusella association, I thought of offering trekking lovers the opportunity to rest their horses and at the same time to be able to refresh themselves at the bar».
The initiative refers to a custom that was lost in the late 1950s.
Before then it happened that the margari of the valley, on their return journeys from the farmhouses on the plain on a cart pulled by a mule, thanks to the monotonous noise on the dirt road of the wheels of the cart circled in iron, dozed off. In Vistrorio, when he arrived right in front of the Nazionale bar, the horse, mindful of their driver’s habit of stopping at that point to quench his thirst, suddenly stopped its race.
Waking up with a start, the owner of the animal descended from the cart and headed into the room for a quart of wine or other, and then resumed the journey towards the upper valley. Stories of other times, these. Meanwhile, in Valchiusella horseback riding is enjoying growing success, thanks also to special routes such as the horse trail built in the Municipality of Rueglio, through an itinerary that from the village reaches Cima Bossola. Created by the municipal administration, again in collaboration with Cavalchiusella, the horse trail includes a 30-kilometer ring route that from the 600 meters of altitude of the Guije di Garavot, reaches the 1,500 of Cima Bossola. giacomo grosso