{"id":4708,"date":"2022-05-31T09:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotelmenapace.it\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T09:12:20","slug":"the-valley-of-paper-mills-of-toscolano-maderno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotelmenapace.it\/en\/the-valley-of-paper-mills-of-toscolano-maderno\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley of Paper Mills of Toscolano Maderno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Characterized by a distinctive and flourishing vegetation consisting of cypresses, olive trees and holm oaks the “valley of paper mills” is now a center of industrial archaeology and home to the “Paper Museum” where it is possible to retrace the stages of the history of paper production from its origins to the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Papermaking in the territory of Toscolano Maderno dates back to the late Middle Ages and was favored by the presence of the Toscolano stream. Dated October 17, 1381, is the first document that attests with certainty the presence of a paper mill along the Toscolano River.<\/p>\n

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History<\/h2>\n

As a result of the confluence of the 2 streams Magasino and Armarolo, which originate from Mount Tombea behind the west coast of Lake Garda, the Toscolano stream is created in the municipality of Valvestino, which runs throughout the Vestino Valley and the so-called Paper Mill Valley.
\nIt was thanks to the motive power for the mills of the Toscolano stream that paper production developed in the valley between Toscolano and Maderno beginning in the 1300s.<\/p>\n

With the invention of printing presses, the demand for paper grew exponentially, and between the 15th and 16th centuries the Valley of the Paper Mills, with its incomparable thickening of mills, became the main production hub of the Republic of Venice. <\/p>\n

With the plague of 1630, production stopped and the valley fell into neglect. <\/p>\n

In the early 1700s production began again and continued between highs and lows until the early 1900s when the construction on the lake shore of a paper mill with modern machinery, reducing production and transportation costs, caused the importance of the valley to decline completely. <\/p>\n

The last paper mill would close in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\t\t