Erto IV

Again a picture of the fair in Erto. In this picture, craftsmen make wicker baskets.

(see yesterday's post for all the story)

Erto III

In August, in Erto there is a very interesting fair: "Tra il vecchio e il nuovo" (roughly between old and new). In the small narrow streets of the village, craftsmen expose their works and show how their work is made: wicker baskets, wooden eldelweisses, leather bags, hand knitted pullovers, and so on. They work, expose and sell their products.

In this picture, two craftsmen are making wooden eldelweisses.

Erto II

Another view of the wonderful valley which Erto lays in. This picture doesn't need many words, it is a wonderful place.

A walk in Erto

This is Erto, a pretty mountains village quite close to Concordia. Erto, together with its neighbouring village Casso, is sadly famous in Italy for a big tragedy occured in 1963, when a piece of mountain fell into the artificial lake made by the Vajont Dam and caused a tsunami wave that submerged and swept away many villages: among these Erto.