Borbera Valley
| Borbera Valley | ||
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 Borbera - The gorges that separate the Obertal from the Untertal |
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| location | Piedmont , Italy | |
| Waters | Borbera | |
| Mountains | Ligurian Apennines | |
| Geographical location | 44 ° 42 '39 " N , 8 ° 53' 17" E | |
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The Borbera Valley ( Ligurian : val Borbëa or Borbéia ; Piedmontese : val Borbaja ) is a valley in the northern Italian province of Alessandria through which the Borbera River flows. The river, officially known as Torrente and 38 km long, flows into the Scrivia . Historically, in the Middle Ages the valley was part of the Duchy of Milan and from 1797 part of the Republic of Genoa , although the Upper Valley, which was separated from the Lower Valley by traffic until the beginning of the 20th century, had long belonged to the Genoese. Since then, the Borbera Valley is still linguistically and culturally linked to Liguria .
Up until the 1950s, viticulture was very widespread, especially in Untertal. Today a special grape variety, the Timorasso , is still grown in the valley, which is also known and valued outside the valley. There are still plenty of chestnut forests in the valley , but chestnuts are no longer harvested as they used to be. The water mills in the valley are also no longer in operation, so chestnut flour is now produced outside the valley. The valley is also known for a special type of potato, namely the patata quarantina bianca genovese , and for the fagiolane , a fairly large, white climbing bean that is highly appreciated and used gastronomically in the province of Alessandria.
The isolation of the upper Borbera valley has resulted in a genetically isolated population.
The Borbera Valley has exceptionally high conglomerate fillings , which consist of several scree horizons and reach a total thickness of one kilometer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorenzo Tacchella: La media e alta Val Borbera. Bozzi, Genoa 1961.
- ^ Giuseppe Rocca et al .: Borbera e Spinti, valli da riscoprire. Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 1986
- ↑ Michela Traglia, Cinzia Sala, Corrado Masciullo, Valeria Cverhova, Francesca Lori et al .: Heritability and Demographic Analyzes in the Large Isolated Population of Val Borbera Suggest Advantages in Mapping Complex Traits Genes. In: PLoS ONE 4, No. 10, e7554, 2009 ( doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0007554 ).
- ↑ Carl-Wolfgang Sames: Orogenic sedimentation and paleogeography during the lower Upper Cretaceous in northern Italy. In: Geological Yearbook. Booklets. No. 103, 1970, p. 86.