Rising and setting of 21.12.2012 (supposed to end the world) on Bisalta Besimauda or, if you prefer.
These days it is the first mountain to be lit in the morning and in the evening the sun goes into hiding behind its slopes.
In fact Bisalta is the name of the ridge, the Bric Costa Rossa on the left in the photo on the right to Bisalta.
Featured Mondovì Piazza.
This mountain is always "sacred" for the people of our region. They tell stories of sightings light, ufo, balls of light, strange concentrations of lightning, in 900 there were even research of uranium.
According to legend the top of the mountain should bifida its conformation to an intervention of the devil.
A mountaineer climbed with difficulty, not least because of the wine drunk the night before, along its paths.
When the moon set behind the profile of Besimauda (Bisalta) the pace of 'man became really difficult: rocks, roots, potholes and bumps of all kinds every step turned into a torment.
It was then that the devil appeared to him in exchange for his soul, gave him a little 'moonlight.
The poor man agreed.
Soon an army of little demons cut out of the mountain rock that obscured the moon.
When the devil appeared to mountaineer the deed of sale of his soul, the light of the moon lit up the sign with which the wretch had signed a contract: it was a cross, which had no legal value to the Underworld!
The poor man had never learned to write.
His soul was saved.
L 'only at the expense was the mountain, and from that day he appeared with a high-top, that is twice as high. "
Surely its charm still has it, for the ancients must have had something divine, that's for sure ...