Each autumn, as summer fades and the first frost appears on the mountain slopes of Graubünden, Switzerland’s largest canton where Romansh, German, and Italian intermingle to celebrate Alpabzug. It is ...
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The great return of transhumance on foot in the Alps: those valleys where flocks are back on the road
In the alpine valleys, cowbells are once again ringing. With the first departures for the mountain pastures, the pedestrian transhumances mark the return of an ancestral rite that still punctuates the ...
Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock among migratory routes in the Mediterranean and Alps, is a form of pastoralism. Every year in spring and autumn, thousands of animals are driven by ...
For centuries, a mountain chain in northern Italy has been fertile ground for transhumance. This ancient practice of moving livestock between valleys and mountains has been a cultural tradition and a ...
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