| The Tramontana "Its History and Nature's Art" A practical guide for getting to know Tramontana Presentation Recently I received, from an anonymous sender, an envelope in which was a booklet by the title and subtitle cited above. It has few pages but well written, in double function typography. Aside intriguing me, it also interested me for its relevant geo-historic and environmental worth. After a few months, the kind sender was not anonymous any more. Whose spiritual guide and “trait d’union with our associates and readers scattered throughout the world, made himself alive with a convincing letter meant to warm him up for disseminating and bring up the value of the contents relating to the historic-cultural evolution of our native land. With his “placet” I, figuratively, lifted some meaningful passages, confident that his good heart will absolve me for taking the license to embed, within parenthesis, a pair of historical points. But to understand them well, we have to frame them in a background context with a small preamble. Then, about ten years ago, with the initiative of some young volunteers, guided by the sage and able person we know, in Caisole (Beli) was born the cultural club “The Tramontana” which centralizes two organizations which live in perfect symbiosis. The first one is the founded for reason well seen, in 1993 with the precise task to “operate integrally for the protection and defense of the Tramontana territory”, already the fiefdom of a “noblesse oblige” tenaciously tied to ancestral privileges and always with aversion to occasional requested administrative autonomy. Headquartered in Caisole’s (Beli) former elementary school, which was closed in 1995 for lack of students. In 1995 it was joined by “The association for the protection of the history and culture of the heritage of Tramontana”. At the back of the building was built a veterinary for the treatment and nursing of grifoni (vultures). Among the registered and adherents are many associations and foreign tourists who are actively collaborating during their entire vacation on the island in order to reach the pre-planned goal. From insistent and preoccupied voices in circulation, picked-up here and there, seems that this massive and decisive participation, of all together, contributed to reject the circulated idea to give this territory to an ascetic-contemplative oriental sect or, as a permanent home, to “restless people without a country”. Three are the exhibitions as of now open, with an increasing number of visitors “fascinated by the stupendous scenery of a so suggestive pleasant landscape, of rare beauty”. The first, on the “Biological diversity on the islands of Cres-Losinj (Cherso-Lussino)”; the second, is on “The story of Beli (Caisole) and Tramuntana” and at the end will be on the “Story of art and nature”, which will be the object, in two parts, of our dissertation. In the next number we will present the geo-historical part, and will close with that of its artistic surroundings. Meanwhile, thank you for the attention which you courteously lent me. Domenico Bon |
| 1989-Beli's (Caisole) Elementary school |
| 4-23-1929, 4th grade for students |
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