What is A BARMA DROLA

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A barma is a protuberance in the rock wall used as shelter when a mountain storm breaks out. Mountain folk know instinctively where to find one and at what distance. Below it there will always be some twigs or dried grass to light a warming fire.

Barme are half-hidden: in a crack or cleft in the rock or behind a boulder. “Drolo” means strange or non quite what one expects. When applied to a person it means “difficult” or untrusting. In this case the barma is a sort of hollowed-out tree “one of those trees you can slip into and watch the snow fall gently, layer upon layer.”

Thus, the rooms have become: il cembro (Swiss pine), il pino silvestre (Scots Pine), l'abete rosso (Spruce), il ciliegio (Cherry Tree), i larici (Larches), gli ontani (Alders). I’m convinced that the guests will be chosen by the rooms themselves according to their personality, sensitivity and nature.