Segheria Veneziana dei Bègoi

The ancient water machines, once used for the first woodworking, are monothematic museum cells and points of interest that qualify and enhance the landscape-environmental heritage of Val di Rabbi. The perfection of their operating mechanisms is the result of the skill of craftsmen of other eras, profound connoisseurs of construction techniques that can still be considered a masterpiece of mechanical engineering. Very common in the past, hydraulic sawmills exploited the energy of water to obtain planks and beams from the logs. In the Trentino area they spread in the 13th century, introduced by the neighbouring Serenissima Republic of Venice.

In Val di Rabbi they were built in the 18th century and some remained active until the 1960s. The workers of the Park have allowed an accurate restoration of the factories, so as to make them still usable for demonstration purposes. Along a simple itinerary, which extends over a flat area and can also be used by the disabled, you can admire the eighteenth-century Segheria dei Bègoi that runs along the Rabbiés stream.