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Alpe Bettelmatt

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Bettelmatt è l’ultimo grande alpe della Val Formazza, alle sorgenti della Toce, sulla strada del passo del Gries, al confine tra Ossola e Vallese, lungo una via che per secoli ha unito l’Ossola all’Oberland Bernese attraversando il Gries e il Grimsel.

All’inizio del XIII secolo, quando i signori De Rodis, feudatari della valle, concessero in affitto ereditario il territorio di Formazza ai coloni walser provenienti dal Vallese, si riservarono alcuni alpeggi (Vannino e Bettelmatt), come pascolo per gli animali da soma diretti ai valichi.

Bettelmatt infatti è solcato in tutta la sua estensione dalla mulattiera che sale al passo del Gries. Perciò i ricchi pascoli del Bettelmatt non furono ceduti ai Walser, ma saldamente mantenuti in possesso della famiglia. Quel vasto piano di poco sotto il Gries era troppo prezioso come sosta e pascolo delle carovane in transito, perché i De Rodis ne cedessero ai coloni il possesso.

Anche il toponimo “Bettelmatt”, nasconde in sé un’origine che testimonia la sua antichissima fama di pascolo di erba particolarmente preziosa. Bettlmatt è termine vallesano-walser che risale al Medioevo, e significa “pascolo della questua”.

(Storia della Valle Formazza – Enrico Rizzi).

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46.440715, 8.372447
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46°26'26.6"N 8°22'20.8"E
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32T 451794 5143207
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