«This beautiful lake with this blue light, with this circle of mountains around that cannot but make everybody feel that this is a proper place, like a universal place; and universal is poetry, universal is this beauty that makes a person visiting it for the first time exclaim “what a beautiful place”.Thus the man of letters Vittorio Sgarbi "sang" about his Barcis, where in July every year the national poetry competition  Malattia della Vallata is held.