Night at Chiusaforte : Sicily to Ukraine by camper van part 47

SEE MY MOTORHOME GROUP ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/motorhomefulltime I arrived in Chiusaforte on the evening of 6 June 2013 and this was filmed just before I turned in for the night. I had just seen a roe deer break cover - unfortunately the camera was not ready when I saw it. I was in transit between Sicily and Ukraine and this seemed a good place to stop the night. I think that transiting through this narrow valley is something people have been doing for a very long time as it was probably on the site of a Roman Road from Italy to the Noricum province. Many years later, Ulric von Eppenstein, Patriarch of Aquileia (1086-1121) had a similar idea. He had a fortress erected to charge tolls to travellers crossing the Alps. The Patriarchs had to defend their territory against the claims raised by the Counts of Görz and the Dukes of Carinthia, until in 1420 the Republic of Venice conquered the Fella Valley up to Pontebba and incorporated it into the Domini di Terraferma.