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Lake Lake · Distretto Turistico dei Laghi · 1,805 m

Morasco

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    Lake Morasco
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Nel 1938, quando la Edison, costruita la gigantesca diga, sommerse l’intera conca verdeggiante di Morasco per farne un invaso di diciotto milioni di metri cubi d’acqua, i valligiani di Formazza abbandonarono per l’ultima volta le loro baite di Morasco, lasciandosi alle spalle un brano tra i più significativi della loro storia di colonizzatori.

Moriva così, sacrificato al progresso e alle superiori esigenze dell’economia nazionale, un insediamento antichissimo: quasi un simbolo della lotta tra l’uomo e la montagna.

 

La stessa sorte di Morasco toccò, in quegli anni, ad altri due piccoli insediamenti walser legai alla storia di Formazza, insediamenti d’alta quota di antica colonizzazione: Agaro, sopra Baceno, e Zervreila, alla testata della valle di Vals, la “Morasco dei Grigioni”, fondata da discendenti dei coloni di Formazza all’inizio del XIV secolo e sommersa da un lago artificiale nel 1956. Morasco (1780 m) venne fondato dai Walser tra il XII e l’inizio del XIII secolo.

L’insediamento risale alla primissima epoca della colonizzazione walser, quando i pastori-allevatori dell’Alto Vallese, lasciarono le loro case del Goms per andare, attraverso gli alti passi, a fondare nuove colonie. Morasco è stata forse la prima in senso assoluto delle numerosissime tappe della lunga diaspora che per più di due secoli ha portato i coloni vallesi di valico in valico, a stabilirsi alle testate ancora spopolate delle valli, in un lungo tratto dell’arco alpino.

(Storia della Valle Formazza – Enrico Rizzi).

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46.424284, 8.396957
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46°25'27.4"N 8°23'49.0"E
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32T 453663 5141366
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