{"id":1132,"date":"2022-10-07T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viestorichebrembane.it\/via-mercatorum\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T20:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:45:10","slug":"via-mercatorum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.viestorichebrembane.it\/en\/via-mercatorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Mercatorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\u00abIl nome Mercatorum - riporta una bacheca lungo il percorso della via - sebbene evochi un nostalgico passato \u00e8 di recente introduzione. Essendo per\u00f2 ormai entrato nel lessico turistico locale si \u00e8 ritenuto opportuno utilizzarlo\u00bb per identificare un preciso itinerario transvallivo. In effetti, a parte la denominazione, non vi \u00e8 dubbio che, precedenti alla Strada Priula, vi fossero in Val Brembana percorrenze antiche, utilizzate per lunghe distanze dai mercanti, dai pastori, dai viandanti in genere. La cosa che forse maggiormente stupisce \u00e8 che si tratta di percorsi talvolta con andamento obliquo rispetto all\u2019orografia locale. La cosiddetta Mercatorum \u00e8 una traccia continuativa che in senso meridiano scollina due linee orografiche orobiche prima di giungere allo spartiacque principale: dalla Val Seriana alla Val Serina, e da questa alla Val Brembana. Coloro che hanno studiato e individuato questo itinerario, associazioni e singoli cultori della materia, suggeriscono addirittura non uno, ma una rete di percorsi assimilabile a una direttrice \u201cMercatorum\u201d. Tale rete, da sud a nord, prende avvio da Nembro e, dopo Selvino, entra nel territorio della Comunit\u00e0 Montana Val Brembana dividendosi in due rami: uno \u201calto\u2019 per Trafficanti e Cornalba; uno \u201cbasso\u201d per Algua e la Val Serina. Riuniti a Serina l\u2019itinerario prosegue univoco fino a Dossena per poi nuovamente proporre due alternative: per San Gallo e per Grumo confluendo infine in fondovalle Brembo all\u2019altezza di Cornello. In un periodo successivo al primo \u201clancio\u201d della Via Mercatorum, dotata di segnaletica, si \u00e8 ritenuto opportuno studiare un prolungamento verso l\u2019alta valle in direzione di Averara e della Val Mora per valorizzare un antico tramite mulattiero con la Val Gerola o con la stessa Valle del Bitto, poi interessata dalla Priula. \\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:12737,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0,&quot;3&quot;:1},&quot;9&quot;:0,&quot;10&quot;:1,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:10}\">\u201cThough the name Mercatorum\u201d, says a notice board on the path, \u201cevokes a nostalgic past, it is of recent introduction. However, as it has now entered the local tourist vocabulary, it was considered appropriate to use it\u201d to identify a specific trans-valley route. In fact, leaving aside the name, there is no doubt that, prior to the Priula Way, there were ancient routes in the Brembana Valley, used for long-distance voyages by merchants, shepherds and wayfarers in general. What is perhaps most surprising is that these routes sometimes ran at an oblique angle with respect to the contours. The so-called Via Mercatorum \u2013 Mercatorum Way \u2013 is a continuous path that runs north-south and crosses two Orobic ridges before reaching the main watershed: from the Val Seriana valley to the Val Serina valley, and from there to the Val Brembana valleys. Those who have studied and identified this itinerary, associations and individual specialists on this subject, even suggest the existence not of just one, but a whole network of paths pertaining to the \u201cMercatorum\u201d route. This network, from south to north, starts from Nembro and, after Selvino, enters the territory of the Val Brembana Mountain Community, then splitting into two branches: a \u201chigh-altitude\u201d route running through Trafficanti and Cornalba, and a \u201clow-altitude\u201d itinerary via Algua and Val Serina. After merging at Serina, the route continues as a single path as far as Dossena and then again offers two alternatives: passing through San Gallo and Grumo, before merging definitively at Cornello down in the Brembo valley. In the period following the initial \u201claunch\u201d of the Mercatorum Way, which had been equipped with signposts, it was thought opportune to study an extension of the path towards the upper valley in the direction of Averara and Val Mora in order to enhance an ancient mule track by adding the Val Gerola valley or the Bitto Valley itself, which would later see the presence of the Priula Way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough the name Mercatorum\u201d, says a notice board on the path, \u201cevokes a nostalgic past, it is of recent introduction. However, as it has now entered the local tourist vocabulary, it was considered appropriate to use it\u201d to identify a specific trans-valley route. 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