Description
SANT'ANDREA PELAGO is a mountain village that rises along the historic via Vandelli at an altitude of 925 meters. Sant'Andrea is a short kilometer from its town and can be reached along a comfortable asphalted road. It is August and today is the day of the photo shoot. a story that grandparents always tell their grandchildren: a street, a small church, an oratory, an ancient tower, a fountain, a bar, a grocery store and a few houses scattered here and there ...
Arrival. I pass the tower and the oratory and stop in the well-restored old building. Bruno and his friend Glauco are on the porch waiting for me with a frozen beer produced in a nearby brewery and some snacks .... Glauco intends to sell ...
I chose to call it the barn because it was its original destination, then Glauco has completely renovated it and transformed it into a restaurant with a pizzeria which is now inactive. ) you can still see the testimonies of the time: from the stone columns that support part of the attic to the wooden trusses.
Bruno tells me and is keen to emphasize that these buildings can be used as they are or transformed into a home and more. A great thing I say!
So we move and go to see the place.
I walk the main road of the hamlet for a few meters and take the dirt access road. After not even 100 meters, I arrive at the building. There is a large parking lot, a grove, a centuries-old oak, a playground for children and mountain fields all around. Do you have a mountain camp? In addition to the particular scent it emanates, it is extremely soft and airy ... you immediately want to lie down in the sun! ...
Il Fienile today looks like this: there is a pizzeria / pub on the ground floor with benches divided by many stone columns that recall its origin (stable). There is a wood-burning oven for the pizzeria, a toilet and kitchens complete with professional steel furniture and pantry. From the ground floor a staircase takes me to the first floor, the real old barn. Here I discover a large hall with double volume, very bright and with a spectacular exposed wooden roof with 3 Palladio-style trusses. Further on there are the services, a warehouse, a small apartment and a large porch. you can see: the enchanting place, the coolness on summer evenings, the 5 hectares of land all around, the convenience of being able to use it as a room without having to do any work or being able to transform it into a house to live in, the fact that it is partially left furnished, the LPG central heating and the air conditioning, the terracotta floor, the exposed roof and the above average finishes. summer evenings, the constant cry of cicadas, Sant'Andrea il Cimone and the Moon. The air here is fresher and purer, the hustle and bustle of August are just a distant memory ... fireflies tracing "golden threads" in the sky and I feel at home ...
