Mezzano is one of the villages in the Primiero valley, in province of Trento, since 2010 considered among the "most beautiful villages in Italy".
Walking through the town you can identify some particular itineraries that wind through the streets and that follow different themes, all to testify to the still alive and evident "scattered signs of the rural".
One of the most interesting and particular is Stacks & Canzei (canto means stack in early erupted dialect). The custom of stocking up and carefully sorting wood to heat homes during the cold winter is kept alive and in this case shown as an art characterized by "thrift, skill and accuracy".
The other courses take place on themes such as frescoes, present on the external walls of many houses in the town and which locate the itineraries of religious processions of the past. There are about twenty of them and they date back to the centuries between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries. L'water represents the fil-rouge of the third itinerary: water as a source of survival, of hygiene, of destructive force. The stages wind through wash houses, fountains, canals, mills, etc. Another path has as its theme thearchitecture and more particularly the traditional and residential one characterized by the use of wood and exposed masonry. The Registration they are another opportunity for in-depth study: these writings have different origins and uses, indicative or commemorative, also flanked by the "thousandths" and the more recent painted signs of commercial establishments. The last theme is that of gardens, 400 those still present. They are in particular vegetable gardens, characterized not only by the presence of vegetables, smells and fruit trees, but also by flowers of numerous species and varieties.
In the summer months, many events take place in the village, especially music, which are part of the rich program of "Romantic Mezzano".
Mezzano can be reached thanks to the urban service that connects it to larger centers such as Feltre and San Martino di Castrozza but also to all the other towns of the Primiero Valley, in particular with the shuttles present in summer.
