Raetia was a province of the Roman Empire named after the Raetian people. It bordered on the west with the country of the Helvetii, on the east with Noricum, on the north with Vindelicia, on the south-west with Transalpine Gaul and on the south with Venetia et Histria, a region of Roman Italy.
It thus comprised the districts occupied in modern times by eastern and central Switzerland (containing the Upper Rhine and Lake Constance), southern Germany (Bavaria and most of Baden-Württemberg), Vorarlberg and the greater part of Tyrol in Austria, and part of northern Lombardy in Italy. The region of Vindelicia (today eastern Württemberg and western Bavaria) was annexed to the province at a later date than the others. The northern border of Raetia during the reigns of emperors Augustus and Tiberius was the River Danube. Later the Limes Germanicus marked the northern boundary, stretching for 166 km north of the Danube. Raetia was connected to Italy across the Alps over the Reschen Pass, by the Via Claudia Augusta. The capital of the province was Augusta Vindelicorum, present-day Augsburg in southern Germany.
It thus comprised the districts occupied in modern times by eastern and central Switzerland (containing the Upper Rhine and Lake Constance), southern Germany (Bavaria and most of Baden-Württemberg), Vorarlberg and the greater part of Tyrol in Austria, and part of northern Lombardy in Italy. The region of Vindelicia (today eastern Württemberg and western Bavaria) was annexed to the province at a later date than the others. The northern border of Raetia during the reigns of emperors Augustus and Tiberius was the River Danube. Later the Limes Germanicus marked the northern boundary, stretching for 166 km north of the Danube. Raetia was connected to Italy across the Alps over the Reschen Pass, by the Via Claudia Augusta. The capital of the province was Augusta Vindelicorum, present-day Augsburg in southern Germany.
In Valchiavenna, Italy, near the southern boundaries of ancient Raetia, honey of unmistakable purity comes from the typical flora of the area, where rich blossoms give their product to bees throughout the season. Lake Como's influence on the climate allows the most typical Mediterranean scents to settle down, giving this valley's products a particular and unique touch. The special combination of botanical species covers the whole of Valchiavenna and affects honey made from flower essences of different kinds.
Robinia, chestnut and lime bloom downstream and on the side of the mountains in May. These three kinds of tree are very important to bees: their nectars produce very different aromas such as vanilla, bitterish and aromatic and they can give life to amazing one flower honey. Regarding honey made from flower essences of different kinds, they combine their organoleptic features together with other diverse botanical species such as wild cherry, blackberry, clover, dandelion, willow and many others.
Nectar drops of different kinds of perfume and aroma (fresh, fruity, flowery, candied, sometimes a bit spicy) are carefully gathered to produce amazing honey, especially when heather, a Mediterranean species flowering in spring, gives its crème caramel, a caramelized sugar-like taste.
This is a very lucky combination of aromas, unusual for honey from an alpine valley. Going uphill, the forests there give room to wide areas where rhododendron, heath and alpine flora grow on alpine pastures. Honey produced there, though not found in abundance, is of exceptional quality: light, with a delicate and fresh aroma as from one rhododendron flower type, with a strong taste as well as fruity, flowery, and aromatic.
Robinia, chestnut and lime bloom downstream and on the side of the mountains in May. These three kinds of tree are very important to bees: their nectars produce very different aromas such as vanilla, bitterish and aromatic and they can give life to amazing one flower honey. Regarding honey made from flower essences of different kinds, they combine their organoleptic features together with other diverse botanical species such as wild cherry, blackberry, clover, dandelion, willow and many others.
Nectar drops of different kinds of perfume and aroma (fresh, fruity, flowery, candied, sometimes a bit spicy) are carefully gathered to produce amazing honey, especially when heather, a Mediterranean species flowering in spring, gives its crème caramel, a caramelized sugar-like taste.
This is a very lucky combination of aromas, unusual for honey from an alpine valley. Going uphill, the forests there give room to wide areas where rhododendron, heath and alpine flora grow on alpine pastures. Honey produced there, though not found in abundance, is of exceptional quality: light, with a delicate and fresh aroma as from one rhododendron flower type, with a strong taste as well as fruity, flowery, and aromatic.
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