Tracciolino, energy and fascination

Strengthening the righteous pact with Lombard valleys, dialoguing with the communities living there and valuing our commitment to a sustainable development: in 2016 we gave new life to "Tracciolino", the tourist route in Valchiavenna between the municipalities of Verceia and Novate Mezzola.

The naturalistic tourist route Tracciolino, a spectacular work of human engineering in Valchiavenna, was built in the 1930s to connect through a small train the Decauville dam and the Edison conveyance works in Val Cordera and Val di Ratti. Passages carved into rocks, galleries of different geometric shapes, brilliant green meadows, the dam and the intake structure of Edison, are just some of the elements of the path, 10 kilometers long and with an average height of 920 meters. A real mountain route starting from Novate Mezzola and arriving to Verceia, to be experienced on foot or by bicycle, alone or with the whole family.

Thanks to a team of biologists and environmental experts and the supervision of the Consortium promoting tourism in Valchiavenna, some students from the Comprehensive Institute of Novate Mezzola worked on valuing the Tracciolino path.

The bond with Valchiavenna and Valtellina is the reason why we donated 11 AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) lifesaving devices to the municipalities in the Sondrio Province. Through the initiative, part of the Edison "Energy from the heart" project, we will also deliver training for operators in charge of out-of-hospital emergency activities.

Tracciolino is a particularly peculiar area due to the presence of various animal and plant species.
The variety of plants ranges from the spotted orchid, an example of the originality of the evolutionary strategy as it is capable of cheating its pollinators, to the rosolida, able to transform its diet into a carnivore one to make up for the lack of nutrients in the territories where it grows, from the common broom, which favors only its favorite pollinator, to the aconite, one of the most poisonous species in Europe.
As for the fauna, instead, we could encounter the roe deer, agile jumper able to move quickly through the bush and leave traces of its passage, the brown bear, that thanks to the Life Ursus project has returned to repopulate that territory, the aesculapian snake, extraordinary specimen of completely harmless reptile, and the owl, a nocturnal bird of prey with a silent flight and a mournful call.