Castle Valdajer

Situated between the territories of Ligosullo and Paularo, Castelvaldajer was built up in this wonderful zone, between forests and pastures. What it remains today is a building used to hotel, than sure does not have more appearances than "castle". The legend speaks about the atmosphere of the pastures, where to spring the shepherds lead the crudes oil. Between they there was a young person, son of the master of the pasture, than it was not adapted to the life of shepherdesses and that it swore against the interminable days between the flock. An evening of autumn, little before that the alpeggio ended, pioveva intensely and the young person found itself alone in the mountain barn. It felt to bark the dog and when it opened the door found dinnanzi one young woman much beautiful one. It was be a matter here of Volaia (from the Valdajer name). The boy the churches to go itself some via with she. Therefore, to the return of the shepherds and the father, these did not find more trace than he. They called and they tried to along, but null making. The father, to the end, decided to leave with the goats towards the Plan from Listeli, ordering to hang on the door of the casera a cross that held far the witches. The old one was found again in the successive spring, next to a pebble from which source gushed out one. Castel Valdajer, in the fine structure ' 800 first ' 900 in one photos, resumption also in the title it, of the Doriguzzi archives). On the history of the castle the testimonies, according to Natalino Sollero ("the Incarojo between history and legend ", Campanotto publisher 1994), say so that to Valdajer "having the Friulano Parliament erected to protecting of the Patriarcale State, against the oppression of the accounts of Gorizia, a sure Corrado I° von Kraig, baron of the Sacred Roman Empire, a successor of this, Corrado IV° von Kraig, finding itself to the commando of its troops in the forts of Osoppo and Sutrio, a day of year 1430 salted on the Valdajer, remaining bewitched of the locality to decide to construct to you one its dwelling. The fact is documented from the fixed date on the time of the door of the castle, hour capacity to Stockdorf, near Monaco di Baviera, and from the bequests of Corrado IV° to the son Leonardo Kraig, it records from Beltrando notary public from Tolmezzo the 22 to you you open them 1488". The Sollero reaches news of 1839 then, when Jacopo Nicolò Craigher reconstructed the castle on the old ones walls, in order to use it after summery residence. The architecture assumed the neogotico style of German type and was used also to generally accommodate personality of the business community and more than that mitteleuropeo. Subsequently the building remarkablly was widened in the 1880 from the baron Dionisio Craigher "de Jachelutta", husband of Amelia von Flotw. One always says that (according to the Sollero) in that period you has soggiornato in private shape the emperor Francisco d' Asburgo. It then followed the forfeiture of the structure, with the fire of 1917 to work of the troops in withdrawn. Reconstruction for work of senator Pier Silverio Leicht was one (relative of the baron Corrado Craigher) with the financings of the war damages. Conte the Orgnani di Tricesimo acquired the building in 1972 and it subsequently transformed in castle-hotel, yielding it the siblings Altan di Ramuscello, which use it which tourist structure.