There are testimonies about the Fanes kingdom, handed down orally, of a strange legend in the heart of the Dolomite valleys. A tale, at times suggestive, which narrates the vicissitudes of a king and a people: the people of marmots. We are in the deepest heart of the Dolomites, an area surrounded by mystery and charm, a place of extraordinary beauty, authentic and with a millenary charm. Valleys where time seems to have literally stopped.
The kingdom of the Fanes and the alliance with the marmots
Once upon a time there was a kingdom, a mild population who loved woods and valleys. The symbology of this narrative presumably dates back to the mists of time. It tells of the expansion and destruction of the Fanes. A warlike decline for these mountains. Since its origins, analyzing the parameters of this legend, la marmot it was depicted as a distinctive sign of the royal coat of arms. The marriage of the Fanes princess with a foreign leader brought about strong changes in the various balances. After this union, the poor marmots had to endure the change, with the figure of an eagle, of the royal coat of arms.
The dwarves and the impregnable armor
From this union, with a warlike and bloodthirsty king, the legend of Dolasilla was born, a ruthless warrior with strong courage. According to oral tradition, the dwarf population decided to give the warrior some gifts to increase the borders of the kingdom: infallible arrows and impregnable armor.
The encounter with an enemy warrior
The warrior, daughter of the Fanes princess and the bloodthirsty king, fell in love with an enemy soldier during a hard battle and decided to get married. The figure of Dolasilla represented par excellence the emblem of the strength of this people. A premonition, made by the tribe of dwarves, attributed strength to this amazon, only until she was sent to marriage. The king, worried about this imminent marriage, which would surely cause the end of the Fanes, ordered his daughter Dolosilla to be killed with his own arrows.
The rocks of the Fanes marmots
After this gesture, the king, with a curse, was immediately turned into stone. The Fanes people, now at the end of a great era, decided to hide under the rocks of the marmot kingdom, in order to survive the enemy soldiers, and find shelter in the heart of the mountain. According to legend, on cold nights some sounds still echo in the surrounding valleys today. These tales, painstakingly reconstructed by local historians, have recently made a comeback. It was precisely the fiction "One step from heaven", with the great Terrence Hill, to catapult this fairy tale into the small screen. The series, born from an idea of Salvatore Basile, has turned the spotlight again on this testimony. Will the kingdom of Fanes return to the fore? Will the marmots be able to defeat the malice of the enemy soldiers? Who knows… imagining costs nothing.
