We leave the Soravia hamlet behind us and pass through sunny Ecche along the road on the right, up to the votive (‘niche’) chapel with the beautifully dressed statue of St. Notburga, an Austrian peasant, with the traditional cloth costume, who is the protector of housemaids and farmers, whose symbols she bears.

Continuing to the left, before crossing the Puiche stream, we stop in front of the prèchllòch, a stone structure that was an ancient flax oven. In fact, the cultivation of flax was widespread. It was processed, spun and woven together with wool for clothing and linen.

Beyond the stream we go up to the Puiche hamlet, a tiny settlement with only a few inhabitants.

The hamlet, with its beautiful wooden houses, is dominated by the small chapel of the Madonna del Rosario (‘Our Lady of the Rosary’), in an elevated position. The multitude of chapels and churches, crucifixes and countless signs of the sacred, large and small, on the buildings and also distributed in the fields, recount the scale of the widespread and deep-rooted religiosity.

The three churches are also evidence of this, including the parish church in the hamlet of Granvilla, dedicated to the patron saint of Sappada-Plodn, Santa Margherita. Renovated in 1779, and based on a design by the master craftsman Tommaso from Lienz (Austria), it has a Baroque imprint and inside there is the altarpiece by Johann Renzler dating to 1802, frescoes and sculptures from various eras.