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In addition to Lake Garda, the filming locations include Crema, a small town 50 kilometers southeast of Milan, Bergamo, a small town 60 kilometers northeast, and Serio waterfall in the Bergamo Alps (alpi orobie). .
After figuring out the location relationship of these places, we suggest that Xiao Yang go to Crema in the southeast after arriving in Milan, then go north to Bergamo in the northeast, and finally go north from Bergamo to the mountain to see the big city. Fall.
Fall
If I remember correctly, we took the initiative to see the waterfall. At that time, I just heard Xiao Yang said that he was coming to Italy. We said that since you like cmbyn so much, why don't we go to see the waterfall together. Xiao Yang excitedly agreed.
Although I didn't think he would definitely come, Yoko, who was keen to understand the geography of each mountain range, checked it out.
In a place called passo del serio in the Bergamo Alps, various springs come down from the mountains and converge in a natural lake called barbellino (lago del barbellino naturale). This lake is the mother lake of the fiume serio.
The river flows down for a few kilometers until it reaches the Barbellino Basin, where other springs flow into the river along the way.
After wrestling with stones for millions of years, the Serio River finally formed a stable channel. Serio Falls is where the Serio River finds its outlet in the Barbellino Basin. Due to the topography, the river fell into a waterfall.
The waterfall roared for another million years.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Italy, which had not caught up with the first industrial revolution, finally caught up with the second industrial revolution. But who knows, even an old waterfall in a deep mountain will be affected.
At that time, the textile industry in the Val Seriana Valley, where the Serio River flows, was developing rapidly. In order to meet the rising demand for electricity, everyone decided to engage in hydropower generation near the source of the Serio River.
The course of the river was changed, and the water was all channeled into the basin. Basins become reservoirs. A dam was built on the reservoir. As soon as the dam releases water, electricity is available.
Since then, the waterfall will only appear when the water is released. Other times, Serio Falls is just a place name, implying that you have a waterfall here in the past and some rare moment in the future.
It can be said that for more than 30 years since 1932, for the needs of economic development, everyone gave up the experience of spiritual satisfaction and beauty from waterfalls.
But who wouldn't want to see waterfalls?
Besides, watching waterfalls and generating electricity are not at all contradictory: before the water is released, go on TV and say it, can't everyone come to watch it?
In 1969, the power company and the local government negotiated this matter. We don't know exactly what they did. In short, everyone can see the waterfall again.
There are even people who are lucky enough to see what the waterfall looked like in the pre-industrial era. From 1975 to 1977, due to the maintenance of the dam, there was no water storage, and the grand scene of river water flowing out throughout the year was restored.
Now, Serio Falls occurs 5 times a year, each 30 minutes long. If you want to see a waterfall, you have to be in the right place at the right time, and with a large group of other people who want to see the waterfall.
Can you imagine that scenario? The baby in the stroller is screaming, the baby on the adult's back is screaming, the child is screaming after the child, the dog is screaming when it meets the dog, and maybe there is some electronic countdown screaming. It was only when the waterfall gushed out that the screams were finally drowned out by cheers.
We told Xiao Yang about the waterfall, and emphasized that it would never be the atmosphere in the movie, implying that he should not go.
Xiao Yang was shocked at first and asked, "How was the movie made?"
Movies, it's very simple, the power company put water for 30 minutes for the movie. The director himself said that he was very nervous at the time, and if the filming was not done well, he would never have the chance to come again.
Later, Xiao Yang seemed to focus on Lake Garda and stopped talking about the waterfall. Later, when Lake Garda was not available, we started talking about waterfalls.
Xiao Yang has only one chance to see the waterfall, at 11 am on August 19th.
This means that we need to go up the mountain on the 18th and spend the night in valbondione, the end town of the Seriona Valley. The last bus from Bergamo to Valbondione (twice a day...) is after 5pm.
Xiao Yang said that they only arrived in Milan on the afternoon of the 18th and could not catch the train.
I couldn't bear to see (imagined) Xiao Yang's disappointment that he missed the waterfall. We comforted him and said that there are also beautiful waterfalls in the small stone valley. It's natural, not to mention Da Vinci.
In valsasina infra vimognio et introbbio amandesstra entrando per la via di leccho si trova la trosa fiume che chade da un sasso altissimo e chadendo entra sotto terra elli finisscie il fiume... Between Vimogno and Introbio in the Valley of the Little Stones, from Lecco On the right hand side is the Trosa River. It fell from a very high stone, then it seeped into the soil and disappeared...
Different from Da Vinci's calm and objective statement, Xiao Yang saw the waterfall and said happily, "The waterfall is beautiful, like a white ribbon..."
country house
The country house where the Elio family lives in the movie is in a small town called Moscazzano, south of Crema. The name of the villa is albergoni or vimercati or griffoni or sant'angelo. From these names, you can tell who once owned the house. 
Before February this year, you can live in the main building by marrying him or marrying her, or you can live in the annex next to the main building by applying for positions such as housekeeper, gardener, servant, tutor, etc.
And now, you can buy the building and the garden for 1.7 million euros through a real estate agent.
Assuming that Xiao Yang really spends a lot of money to buy a house, he will get an empty house or an empty house with water leaks. Next, he needed someone to renovate the house, as well as the set designer violante visconti di modrone to restore the movie scenes for him. These obviously cannot be accomplished overnight.
In fact, Xiao Yang himself knew that this wish was unrealistic, and he stopped talking about living in the villa later.
Besides, even if it was really a hotel, we wouldn't accompany him to stay there...
Late the night before returning to Milan from Naples, Xiao Yang announced that he would not go to Bergamo or Crema, but to come to the Little Stone Valley to find us.
He said, I checked the accommodation for tomorrow night, the nearest one is 8 kilometers away from your house. Do you live near your house?
We say, yes.
The hotel closest to our house, called Chestnut B&B, is a villa. Like the Elio family's house, it has a garden that is much larger than the building and is also in the countryside. Different from Elio's house, Chestnut B&B is built on a small hill, from which the face of the small stone valley unfolds layer by layer.
The chestnut road (via castagneti) in front of the door rises eagerly after passing the B&B, turns a corner, and disappears behind the bushes of the pasture next door. On the other side of the road were rolling grass slopes, on which the woods and farmhouses rose and fell.
The terrain of the grassy slope is lower than us, even if there are trees on it, it will not prevent us from viewing the small town barzio opposite the river valley: along the 700-meter elevation line, single-family houses and townhouses are lined up and down. , five or six-story apartment buildings, five or six-story hotels, the bell tower of church a, the bell tower of church b, the block of the stadium...
barzio is a ski town, far more hip and lively than we are. Every winter, people from Milan, Brianza, people from the Lake District, people from the mountains, people who can't squeeze in a long vacation, people who have no money, people who can't ski well, will choose to ski here.
If you zoom in, you will see that above the fashionable town is a relatively whole piece of woods, and there are occasional grasslands with huts in the woods; on the contrary, the grasslands are large and dotted with trees.
Like all those who saw the Alps for the first time, we also felt that the scene of intertwined forests and grasslands by the mountains was particularly beautiful, with dark and light colors, soft and hard textures, rich and harmonious. Moreover, this is the Alps I saw in travel shows and cartoons before.
But one day, we suddenly realized that these grasslands used to be forests. Humans cut down the trees to create the grassy slopes. From now on, whenever we see grassy slopes, we think of bald heads with uneven hair loss, clothes with holes that are about to rot, and sheep that have been brutally shaved. Straight-line diving is just one aspect of it. The grassy slopes become something of sigh and sadness at the thought of wild animals driven to nowhere by expanding human activity.
If you look far into the distance, the ridgeline floating between 1,500 and 2,000 meters above sea level should fill just the full width of your field of view. Looking from low to high, you will find dense forests, thinning forests, meadows with scattered trees, pure alpine meadows, and stone peaks rising from the meadows.
It's impossible not to notice that at the far left of the field of vision, the small stone valley was squeezed by the mountains on both sides and only 40 meters wide. The provincial roads, promenades, and the mother river pioverna, which run parallel to each other at a distance, can only be crossed through here.
In the Middle Ages, the other side of the pass was the Venetian territory, and this side was controlled by Milan. In 1447, the Venetians broke through here, went south along the small stone valley, and surrounded Lecco. Milan dispatched troops to relieve the siege of Lecco and let the Venetians retreat to the pass along the original road. The Venetians guarded the castle on the edge of the pass and held traffic control in the valley for five years. Later, the Archduke Sforza of Milan fought around the castle for a year before finally driving the invaders away.
If you want to live in this villa that is not inferior to the elio family, it is not enough to be able to surf the Internet, make a phone call, and know Italian. You also need a little luck.
This family runs a homestay with three days of fishing and two days of netting. On booking, you can't find it. On an unheard of B&B site, it costs 1 euro. There is no sign on its door, but if you look closely, you will find a small sign blocked by leaves at the bottom of the green plant to the left of the door, which reads "Chestnut Homestay" and a phone number.
Last Christmas, a friend came from Paris to play and wanted to know the prices of hotels around our house. We couldn't find the price online, so we called Chestnut B&B. We tried several times and couldn't get through, so we had to run up and ask ourselves. At that time, the gate of the garden was open, and we went in directly. We went up the road and saw an old man sitting comfortably in front of the house basking in the sun in the distance. We greeted him and explained our purpose. He said that he didn't care, the manager went out and would not come back until next week, and only after he came back would he know how much it would cost for a night.
You see, even asking a price depends on fate...
We didn't hold out any hope when we asked Lizi B&B if we had a room for the old and young Yang. In August, the national holiday, on the closing weekend of the annual local event "sagra delle sagre" (sagra delle sagre), it is a dream to book a room for that night. Maybe they all went on vacation themselves...
The phone actually got through.
"Hello!"
Someone still picked up.
"Hello! Chestnut B&B? I'm a Chinese tao living in Chestnut Street."
"Oh know, hello!"
"Two friends came to play with us and wanted to help them book a room for tonight. Do you have any more?"
"No more. A family came to stay for ten days and left tomorrow."
"So tomorrow night, right?"
"right."
"That's great. It's scheduled for tomorrow night then."
"Then where are your friends staying today? What about them? What about today? Where are they staying today? Are your friends already here? Where are they staying today?"
"..."
"Do they have a place to live today???"
"Well, yes, just squeeze our house."
"Oh, ok, we'll have a room for sure tomorrow! See you tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow!"
On the day when the Chestnut B&B ran out of rooms, we went to the lake .
The next day we took the 5pm bus back to pasturo. The car drove for 40 to 50 minutes, Xiao Yang had been sleeping, and Lao Yang had not slept.
We got off the bus a little in front of the gas station at the entrance of the village, went back around the turntable, said hello to the star dog Moro at the entrance of Lizi Street, and walked up the chestnut Street that has been going up.
In the noise of the luggage rubbing against the road, we described the situation of our outdoor sports with Lao Yang, who is interested in outdoor sports. Lao Yang made an excited "ah" and "wow" sound while listening. Seeing that Lao Yang is in good health and likes sports, we sent him an invitation to climb mountains, rocks and bikes together.
Lao Yang immediately said, "We're not going to Milan anymore, we'll stay here."
"Really, you don't go shopping in Milan anymore?"
"Who said I was going shopping in Milan!?"
We pointed to Xiao Yang.
"No more going to Milan!" Xiao Yang said.
It must be that Xiao Yang's strong desire to live in the Elio family villa moved God, and he stayed in the chestnut villa for three whole days.
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