Fiumetta stream

Italiano

The Fiumetta is a stream that runs down from the coast of Monte Orscellera in Valsassina to flow after very few kilometers into Pioverna Orientale (Eastern Pioverna) stream, flowing entirely in the Municipality of Barzio; its notoriety comes from crossing the town center.[^] The regime is irregular, the water flows during rains and is exhausted after a few days.

Along the course of the stream, in the riverbed or beside it, or on bridges that cross it, the Municipality of Barzio has placed a series of yellow signs authorizing discharge, as it does for other waterways in the country, most they can be read looking towards the valley. They are also useful for identifying the presence of a torrent in the covered sections. The format of the signs is Comune di BARZIO autorizzazione allo scarico n. 135 del 22.03.2006 scarico n. 2.X valle name (Municipality of BARZIO authorization to discharge n. 135 on 22.03.2006 discharge n. 2.X name Valley), where X is a number. For the Fiumetta, scarico n. 2.X valle Fiumetta (discharge n. 2.X Fiumetta Valley).

La Fiumetta in the country

The Fiumetta stream comes from the mountain descending steeply along the edge of some houses in Via Valtorta and passes under a bridge, where it feeds the municipal wash house. It continues steeply along Via Rena between two walls about two meters apart, discharge n. 2.8 and discharge n. 2.9. Near the rear of the building in Piazza Garibaldi 11 (Locanda di Mirò), the watercourse goes underground. An upstream branch of the stream crosses Via per Concenedo (discharge 2.1 Fiumetta valley) before a high condominium and descends channeled in the right side of Via Rena to join the main waterway under the square. In Piazza Garibaldi, at the corner of Via Francesca Manzoni, you will find the yellow sign Municipality of BARZIO authorization to discharge n. 135 on 22.03.2006 discharge n. 2.2 Fiumetta Valley. The Fiumetta crosses Piazza Garibaldi under the houses of street numbers 13-21, to exit a few meters later at the beginning of the pedestrian area along Valle Fiumetta.
Two documents on maintenance work carried out in the square in the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was still the Piazza Comunale, hand down to us how two technicians called the watercourse. In 1829, the expert Bartolomeo Combi in his report calls the stream la fiume (the river), with feminine gender and in lowercase. In 1842, for the engineer Paolo Scandella it was the Fiumicella.[^][^] The stream flowed uncovered in the square, and a bridge connected it to Via Francesca Manzoni, until the 1930s when it was buried.

La Fiumetta, as the watercourse is called by barziesi (inhabitants of Barzio), runs along the first section of the pedestrian area to the right, while to the left there are some houses. Its course is rather steep, observable from Via Roma, between Bar Gelateria Châlet (discharge 2.7) and Piccolo Bar.[^] The stream continues passing under Via Martiri Patrioti Barziesi, where towards the mountain it can clearly see between the end of the first houses of the street and the bus stop coming from Lecco.[^] In the direction of the valley (on the same pole, discharge 2.3 and 2.4[^]), the river goes down closed between two walls (discharge 2.5), going decidedly to the left where the Fiumetta Valley widens in plan for a hundred meters,[^] between P2 (Market Square) and Tensile structure (discharge 2.6, 2.10 with 2.11[^]). In 2023, the overgrown valley meadow[^] was cleared for an artificial bicycle amusement track, which has a couple of names in English pump track & skill park. At the end of the pedestrian area created along its route, the torrente Fiumetta flows between P3 and the playground at the tensile structure;[^] in Via Provinciale, at the entrance-exit of the parking lot, it is observable towards the mountain from a bridge with white railings.

The Fiumetta can be heard flowing in the town when there are heavy rains due to the speed with which it descends into the town.[^][^] As far as I know, the stream water has never created any problems or damage.

Last course of the stream

Beyond Via Provinciale, Fiumetta continues almost flat and hidden, it flows near Conca Rossa with a curved, free and wide bed. Here it collects the waters of the stream that comes from Cremeno, Torrente Berniga.[^] Then, it descends into a steep valley with little slope for about a hundred metres, Valle Inscea, skirting locality Coldognetta. After crossing the Provincial Road 64 Prealpina Orobica branch Barzio - Ponte Folla, the Fiumetta torrent flows into the Pioverna Orientale in the locality Mulino di Barzio.

References

1. Mauro Vezzoli (27 June 2012- ). "Torrente Fiumetta". [Google Photos album]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
2. Oriani, Federico (July 2015). "Le strade di Barzio, trasformazioni e denominazioni tra Sette e Novecento [The streets of Barzio, transformations and denominations between Eighteenth and Twentieth Century]" [PDF File] (in Italian). Doc Player. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
3. Oriani, Federico (July 2015). "Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi". In 2 - Viabilità urbana barziese [2 - Urban roads of Barzio]. Le strade di Barzio, trasformazioni e denominazioni tra Sette e Novecento [The streets of Barzio, transformations and denominations between Eighteenth and Twentieth Century] [PDF File] (in Italian). Comune di Barzio. pp. 36-39. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
4. Mauro Vezzoli (8 July 2014). "July 2014 is really very rainy. The Fiumetta swells of the waters coming from the Monte Orscellera and flows strongly downstream. The Torrente Fiumetta photo album is in Google Photos in my account. In Blogger a post describes the flow of the stream in Barzio, published on June 28, 2015, modified in September 2017 and in September 2019.". In In giro per Barzio. [Flickr photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
5. Mauro Vezzoli (29 July 2014). "Continue July 2014 with heavy rains. After the full on 8 July, another on 29 July, even stronger. The Fiumetta stream flows downstream with great speed, taken from the bridge of Via Martiri Patrioti Barziesi.". In In giro per Barzio. [Facebook photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
6. Mauro Vezzoli (22 August 2013). "The pedestrian area from Via Martiri Patrioti Barziesi with the concrete walkway, the stream, the road sign and the two yellow signs of the municipality of Barzio, discharge authorization n. 135 of 22.03.06 discharge n. 2.3 valle Fiumetta and under discharge 2.4.". In giro per Barzio. [Flickr photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
7. Mauro Vezzoli (2 April 2013). "The Fiumetta stream at the beginning of April, it is cold and there is still snow. I return to Barzio for the last 'wintry' of my long season of ascents to Piani di Bobbio. The bare landscape allows to admire the valley of the stream on the slope below the Parking 2.". In Area pedonale lungo la Valle Fiumetta, In giro per Barzio, Primavera and Torrente Fiumetta. [Google Photos photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
8. Mauro Vezzoli (1 September 2017). "The two signs of the discharge authorization of the Municipality of Barzio, 2.10 and 2.11 Valle Fiumetta, under Parking 2. The sign 2.11 is above 2.10. I take this photograph because I am rewriting the text of the photo albums I published on Blogger, Pedestrian area along the Valle Fiumetta and Torrente Fiumetta. Now a photographer only on rare occasions because I realized that it is almost impossible to be able to give the right place to the ones I have.". In Estate and Torrente Fiumetta. [Google Photos photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
9. Mauro Vezzoli (27 June 2012). "Third photo of Valle Fiumetta in Barzio taken at four in the afternoon of 27 June 2012. The pedestrian street for Via Martiri Patrioti Barziesi from P3.". In Area Pedonale lungo la Valle Fiumetta, Estate and Torrente Fiumetta. [Google Photos photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
10. Mauro Vezzoli (27 June 2012). "Torrente and Valle Fiumetta with the background of the Tensile structure tent. With dad and mom I spend my 2012 summer vacation in Barzio. It is the second year, after Riccardo bought a house in Via Milano 30 at the end of summer 2010. I get the idea of photographing the streets and places of Barzio to have a memory of the country and the days gone by, which will last several years. In the same way I concentrate on the Grignone, photographing paths, huts, mountain pastures, locality and other views. Last year my goal was to climb the most significant mountains of Valsassina.". In Estate and Torrente Fiumetta. [Google Photos photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
11. Mauro Vezzoli (8 July 2014). "The course and the water of the Fiumetta along the pedestrian area after so much rain. The sound of water against the walls of its bed impresses, a stream that is generally calm or without water.". In In giro per Barzio. [Flickr photo]. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
12. Mauro Vezzoli (10 September 2017). " Even a video of the stream that runs through the center of Barzio. We have to wait until September 10th to see so much rain in a summer that is lacking in rainfall. You can hear the water flowing because of the great speed with which the Fiumetta falls and slams into its bed channeled into the cement and between the houses.". In giro per Barzio. [Facebook video]. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
13. Oriani, Federico (July 2015). "Odonimi-toponimi [Odonyms-toponyms]". In 6 – Dai toponimi agli odonimi [6 - From toponyms to odonyms]. Le strade di Barzio, trasformazioni e denominazioni tra Sette e Novecento [The streets of Barzio, transformations and denominations between Eighteenth and Twentieth Century] [PDF File] (in Italian). Comune di Barzio. p 170. Retrieved 1 September 2017.