How words sounded to us in the 13th century can still be heard in Zahre, Plodn and Tischlbong, on the German-speaking islands of Italy: in Sauris, Sappada and Timau.
The winding road with the many tunnels promises an idyllic mountain village at the destination: Sauris (German: Zahre) consists of the two villages Sauris di Sotto/Unterzahre and Sauris di Sopra/Ouberzahre. village known not only for its prosciutto. Opposite the “Hoor Scheararin” in Sauris di Sopra/Ouberzahre, in the stable converted into a museum, Lucia Protto takes us back to a Middle High German language that a quarter of the approximately 400 inhabitants of Sauris still speak today: the “Zahrer Sproch “.
Source: Krone
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