The Murals of Aprica: a journey through art, nature, and traditions in Valtellina
Just as Orgosolo in Sardinia has been able to tell its identity through its famous murals, Aprica, in Valtellina, has transformed the walls of its neighborhoods into canvases of art, weaving together stories of nature, memory, and alpine traditions.
If you happen to stroll through Aprica, you cannot help but notice it: every corner tells a story, every wall paints emotions. Aprica is the painted village of Valtellina, thanks to its 46 murals that color the neighborhoods of S. Maria, Dosso, and S. Pietro.
It all began in 1999 with an idea from the Municipal Administration, which entrusted the project to the artist Alcide Pancot. An innate talent, inherited from his painter and sculptor grandfather, who thus begins a personal challenge: to transform the streets of Aprica into an open-air art gallery.
An immersive experience with QR Codes
Each mural is accompanied by a QR Code that allows you to discover its meaning, guiding the visitor through colors, fascinating perspectives, and stories of alpine life.
The themes of the murals: the mountain life told on the walls
- Contrada S. Maria (2000-2001) is the heart of tradition: here the murals tell the stories of agricultural jobs of the past, such as livestock farming, charcoal production, transhumance, but also the most important historical moments of Aprica, like the first hotel or the construction of the Frera dam.
- Contrada Dosso (2002-2003) takes the visitor among the high mountain flowers: Comolli violets, alpine stars, martagon lilies, and many other botanical wonders painted with attention to their natural environment.
- Contrada S. Pietro (2004-2011) instead celebrates the animals of the Alps: brown bears, golden eagles, chamois, ibexes, owls, deer, and owls, enclosed in imaginative frames that seem to frame nature itself.
