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Bàrech (Traditional Stone Animal Enclosure)

Bàrech (Traditional Stone Animal Enclosure)

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Bàrech (Traditional Stone Animal Enclosure)

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Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi

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Location: Valleve, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

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Alessandro Speziale 🥾🍃🪢

August 10, 2024

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The bàrech (or bàrek) was used as a pen for animals, so that they would not disperse at night. Its construction also had the collateral function of freeing the pasture from stones, thus allowing more grass to grow and therefore making the mountain pasture more productive. Where a bàrech was not necessary, the stones were then stacked in the piles that we have all had the opportunity to see many times in mountain pastures.

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Igor

August 20, 2025

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A historic example of high-mountain pastoralism, a vestige of human-led landscape modification. The Alta Via della Val Tartano trail passes just above.

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