You are walking on traditional cobble stones which are characteristic and natural. The simple wood-stack that you can see to your left is made in the traditional way. The walk visiting “Cataste & Canzei” describes in its thirty artistic installations how from a log, intended for heating the home over winter, there can be a transformation into a story and creativity. Locals all go on Saturdays stacking wood. You’re not “part of Mezzano” if you don’t follow this rule, if you don’t succumb to this necessity!

A warning for your trip: Near each wood stack you’ll find a small information board identifying the title, author and year in which the piece was completed.

The one in front of you is a “Canisela,” a local dialect word meaning a narrow alley. You’ll find quite a few of them as you wander through these little lanes, lined with stables, haylofts, homes, balconies, and glimpses of village life.

This particular one marked the old southern boundary of the village. Beyond it, there were only endless cornfields, the isolated church with its rectory and cemetery, a couple of mills, and a couple of water-powered sawmills.

At the end of it stands a small wooden bridge called the Ponte dei Sogni (Bridge of Dreams). In keeping with Mezzano Romantica, I invite you to stop and read the information panel on your right—you’ll discover its story! Feel free to step onto the bridge and capture this moment with someone you love.

Oh, another eye! It’s inviting you to look to the left. At the end of the portico, you’ll catch sight of “Il Bosco Vecchio” (The Old Forest)—idealized, yet real. There is so much to discover in this artwork: the trees, like columns supporting the sky; the intertwining branches symbolizing human relationships… Everything is condensed into the silhouette of a backlit forest, asleep in winter as it waits to bloom again.

The Albergo La Lontra will guide you straight ahead to the next arrow. Then you’ll find two more: one further to the right and one to the left. I’ll meet you again around there