Books & Bikes – Bed & Breakfast

This rural house was rebuilt after the disastrous earthquake of 1976, respecting the traditional lines of the Friulian courts. The earthquake did not prevent the Fabbro family, present in this place since the 19th century, from living it in continuity with traditions; he did not ignore them, but continued with dignity the agricultural activity and the ancient carpentry skills of his ancestors.

The “cjase di Gjelmo da Gea” breathes the efforts of Luciana and Rino, who miraculously escaped the earthquake; the eighteenth-century well – a common water source – preserves the voices of the numerous children who lived in these spaces, reduced and then extinguished by emigration.

We want to share these spaces, full of books and objects from the family trades, not with tourists, but with travellers, because “travel” and “book” have the same nature.

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel knows only one page” (Saint Augustine)

The Alpe Adria Radweg Cycle Route (hence the acronym CAAR), is a long-distance cross-border cycle path that connects Salzburg, on the northern side of the Alps, to the seaside town of Grado.

The Alpe Adria Radweg cycle route is described as one of the most spectacular European cycling routes. In fact it is a route that offers continuous surprises to the cycle tourist: you pass through pleasant cities, medieval villages and characteristic villages; you pedal along placid rivers and sparkling streams that sometimes disappear into wild gorges.

From the suggestive Alpine valleys, rich in woods and dominated by high mountains, you descend towards the fertile Friulian plain which leads to the sunny beaches of the Adriatic Sea.

Confirming its spectacular nature, the Alpe Adria Radweg cycle path was proclaimed the “cycle path of the year 2015” during the active tourism fair in Amsterdam.