Casèl di Somrabbi

At Piazzola, in the locality of Somrabbi, the old casèl was the village dairy, run on a rota: each day the processing was the task of one of the member farmers. It worked in winter, when the cows were kept in the barns on the valley floor. Today it is a museum: in the room with the large open hearth hang the cauldrons on swivelling arms, and beside them stand the strainers for filtering the milk, the skimming basins, the butter moulds, the churns, the spersoi, the fascere. The building bears the date 1858 and was restored in 1999 by the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio using the building techniques of the time.