👉Trip to Bolca | the city of fossils🔴

Hello friends Today I am here to write another article about a trip I made last Sunday to the village of Bolca, we are in the province of Verona at an altitude of about 800 metres.

As soon as I arrived, I headed for the fossil museum, which is the most important point of interest in the locality, but do you know why there are fossils here in Bolca?

Because in this area, numerous palaeontologists have found many different types of fossils. The fossils are animals that died about 50 million years ago and were deposited on the seabed (in fact, there used to be a sea here, and today there are mountains), were covered with various sediments and became petrified. They have been preserved inside the rocks for millions of years, in fact it is only a few years ago that these fossil deposits were discovered, think of it that this is the largest deposit in Europe

That is why the fossil museum was built in 1971 and is still very much visited, below if you want you can see the natural history museum in Verona, where some of the fossils found in Bolca are kept, I had made a video some time ago.

In the photo I photographed the view from the museum, this is the Val D'Alpone because the Alpone torrent is here.

This is an old house that has been converted into a hotel/pizzeria, and as of this year they have also put in ebike charging and rental, which is a great way to get around these places without struggling. I slipped into the streets of this village and continued my visit.

Part of the walls of the buildings are decorated with frescoes by local painters and mosaics that were created by the pupils of the local primary school, in memory of the teacher who passed away some time ago.

These handmade mosaics represent the work that used to be done in these places, in the house where they have been attached means that work was done there. You have to know that life in the mountains has always been hard, which is why all kinds of work was done in these small villages, too far from the plains and the city.

There is also a beautiful, newly built football and basketball court here, definitely a place for physical activity.

Incidentally, for the past few years they have also built a camper van area for tourists, with free water loading and also sewage disposal, all completely free of charge, something very rare in Italy where they charge you for everything, so friends who have a camper van there is an opportunity to pay a visit here.