Slovenia / Italy: Driving to Dolomites
After work, Nada and me started driving to the Dolomites, where Chera Hiking organized a summer camp. On the way we stopped by Bagni di Gogna, springs mentioned by Cesare Vecellio at the end of the sixteenth century. We finished driving, when we entered our designated campsite, Camping Sass Dlacia, the highest campground in the Dolomites.
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| The bath of sulphurous waters. The golden age of the thermal area was 1888 when they built a real establishment with 24 dressing rooms, stone and wooden baths and 30 bedrooms, as well as a restaurant, a piano room, car services, a doctor, newspapers and guides. The water - in the form of hot baths or showers - of the magnesium sulphurous type was used against "the catarrhal affections of the gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary mucosa, in neuralgia and in particular in muscular and articular rheumatism". |
The tourism started to decline during the First World War, with the passing of thermal tourism and the 1966 flood, that swept away the springs, the tanks and the buildings.
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| Now it is possible to identify, in the mixed forest, rich in pines, firs and horse-chestnuts, remains of stone spa baths, streams that give off the typical smell of rotten eggs and some pools of water - ferruginous and magnesia-sulphurous. |
After we tested the bad sulphur water, we moved into the camp.
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