I Salomonsbrunn in Antholz Under / Unterrasen are documented since the fifteenth century . In 1820, the beach and the hotel were moved to the current zone, for damages suffered by a landslide on the slopes of the mountain. The radioactive source has helped to make famous this spa, especially for the treatment of gynecological diseases. Going to the falls Riva is located in the town of village Caminata Campo Tures / Sand in Taufers , Baths Winkel very popular in the eighteenth century.
Anterselva In the end there is a lake, surrounded by forests of mixed conifers. Is fed by several tributaries that come down from nearby mountains and springs on the bottom. It has an area of \u200b\u200b44 m and an average depth of 21.7 m.
is always considered to be particularly rich in fish such as trout, char.
A nice path around the lake.
Beautiful snowfields and steep mountains characterize the Natural Park Rieserferner Aurina , covering an area of \u200b\u200b31,500 hectares n she orienale north-Alto Adige. The park stretches from the Antholzertal and the Ahr Valley and is bordered by the Hohe Tauern massif . The municipalities included in the park include Campo Tures Gais, Perca, Predoi, Rasen and Anterselva Ahrntal.
The protected area includes pads Rieserferner, the Group of Dura, the western sector of the Group of Eastern propagini Grossvenediger and the Zillertal Alps. The Group Rieserferner is presented as relatively thin unit montana mail between the Tures Valley, the Valley of Riva, the Valley of Dossi, Defereggen Valley (East Tyrol), the Valley of the valley's main Anterselvae Rienza. It includes 30 major peaks, 12 of which are over 3000 m.
Under the geology, natural park lies in the ancient gneiss degi ( is a series of already existing rocks in Paleozoic era and subsequently metamorphosed ). The Vallle Ahr is known to be rich in minerals and their collection has a long tradition. From the geomorphological zones gneiss, also called "stony mountains", have sharp ridges, steep and rocky, while the areas from shale layers are "grassy mountains."
The oldest traces of man in Dolomite Ladin-date from the Mesolithic ( from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period ended the last ice age and the consequent dissolution Glacier ). These camps hunters found near the passes or in alpine lakes. The first traces of agriculture, and then an organization of life based on permanent settlements, dating to the period between 850 BC. and the arrival of the Romans in 15 BC The
"viles" are considered the most ancient forms of settlement. These "village community" probably represents the earliest forms of organization of the settlers in this valley.
Between St. Louis and the Val Badia, height of Longega, picoline or Pederoa can meet the Liberal Party of Marebbe Longiarù and Val, a landscape mountain farmer very specific: the slopes are covered with numerous "viles", surrounded by meadows and fields, which sometimes lead to steep and narrow streets.
These settlements have closed their origin on the one hand the need for security and a sense of belonging to aprte of population and the other the need to use sparingly the little available land suitable for agriculture.
The typical architecture of the farmhouses in the Val Badia consists mostly of a single storey brick and a wooden floor leaning. The
"viles" may include up to ten residential units to farmers, barns and stables of wood and stone, built side by side.
The Conturines grotto was discovered in 1987 by Willy Costamoling Corvara . In reality he was seeking the so-called "dolls Travenanzes" calcareous concretions looking very peculiar. In the cave instead made a remarkable and unexpected discovery: after a steep and slippery in the middle of stalactite and stalagmite concretions, reached a flat area where the ground was strewn everywhere from bones, teeth and skulls .
After the scientific controls, the bones turned out to be found the remains of cave bears (bear cave). The age of the remains of cave bear was determined to 40,000 and 115,000 years ago ! We should also mention the discovery of a jaw of a cave lion and fossil bones of marmot. The area surrounding the cave Conturines (d. 2750) is now devoid of vegetation and no longer living marmots. It is assumed therefore that the vegetation in this place was much more developed.
Fanes The Kingdom "is certainly one of the legends of the rich and complex tradition Dolomitic Ladin. It is the saga was born on Italian soil that is loosely comparable to the great legendary European cycles, such as the Arthurian legend or the Nibelungen. Was collected and transcribed in the late 800 by Karl Felix Wolff.
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Up the high Conturines , where now there are only bushes and rocks, in an arena that still bears the name of Parliament Marmotte, long time ago there was a magical kingdom with towns and villages and cultivated fields. This country was called Fanis and its inhabitants were Fanes . Fanis had mountains and valleys, streams and lakes and forests and it was very large.
Fanes The people had a queen who lived in the castle in the mountains, protected by three surrounding walls. Fanes The people were peaceful and wise were the marmots and their allies . The people were telling neighbors that the Fanes had become large because of this alliance which had become a secret that the caretakers revealed only to the new queen as a gift on the day of his wedding.
Fanes The last princess married a foreign prince, and came to know how humble the origins were based on which the great kingdom, had not the courage to reveal to her husband. The princess refused to rule and so the foreign prince was elected king of Fanes. One day the king went hunting on Nuvolau, managed to take an eagle, but the sky fell on him with the eagle beak of fire and golden claws. After a hard fight and alternates the eagle said, "Give me back my son, and make you the most powerful king of the mountain land. "The king agreed, and the eagle proposed an alliance that would be consolidated with the exchange of twins. The eagle was truly the king of a remote island those of people from one arm. After some time the twins were born in the castle, and Dolasila Luianta .
the morning instead of Luianta was in a white crib marmot. The queen forbade the nurses to make the word with the king. A few days later the king said to Queen of wanting to take the twins on a high mountain to submit to the Sun, Lord of all life. He made a call squire and ordered him to bring the twins at the foot of Nuvolau , where the eagle would come to choose one of the twins. Women have reported that one of the girls was kidnapped on the way back.
dawn the squire rode well with the twins wrapped in blankets, so that no one could see, towards the borders of the land of Caiütes arriving in the evening to Nuvolau. All of a sudden came the eagle with the golden claws, took the basket and the strangest of the twins got up in the air. Arriving near the top rested on a rock opening wings and beak. At that moment the marmot escaped by hiding in a crevice of the rock. The squire was returning to the castle, when he heard the scream of Spina de Mul, a master magician with the appearance of a mule, half rotten. The wild scream was crazy about his listeners. The squire spent the night together with the Fanes warriors who controlled the border. Suddenly they heard footsteps. He approached a young man who came from the land of Durannes to earn with his adventures as a warrior. The young Duranno was curious to know who had Spina de Mul, who had stolen the Fanes Raieta the stone that was their greatest treasure.
E Spina was de Mul. The courageous Duranno struck him in the head with a stone and the wizard fell to the ground screaming. Spina de Mul tried to escape, but the warrior Duranno continued to hit him and for his heroic act was called Edl de Net ( eye of the night), that can strike at night. In the fight Spina de Mul had also lost Raieta. One of the warriors turned to Fanes Edl de Net, saying: " are now truly a great warrior. You've earned your name fighting superhuman strength and are in possession of the stone, which is the greatest treasure of Fanes. Anything you ask you will be in the realm of Fanes date. "
While everyone watched the mysterious stone, Dolasila began to cry and scream. Edl de Net showed her the Raieta and as if by magic, the girl calmed down by holding tight the precious stone." If this is your princess , "Edl said de Net, the stone is his, and I give it back .
The squire returned to the castle and told the queen that the second mate had been stolen, but the Queen did not reply. The king, however, told how they had happened. One evening, as the king of Fanes rode down to the pastures of Senes, the eagle came down from heaven with golden claws and keeping the deal left the ground a young eagle. The king took it and rode towards the castle, but he fell into a ravine and saw that he had not the eagle. Desolate went to the palace. Here the expected good news: the queen had given birth to a prince. The baby was beautiful and strong, but had only one arm. The king arranged a great feast and the tower did Fanes haul down the flag of the marmots and raise a red flag with an eagle in honor of his close ally.
One day the king heard talk of an old storyteller beautiful underground realm of Auron and was very impressed. The story of the storyteller had so inflamed that immediately began to search the Aurona. He learned of a lake above Canazei, was the Silver Lake, where people thought it was an immense hidden treasure. The king went with Dolasila and his entourage. We dug and dug for a long time and one day a soldier of the king found himself in a cave of precious jewels and a silver box containing a white fur like the moon and a little 'gray powder. From the cave came three dwarfs who begged the king that they were not taken away the treasure. The king did not give their hearing, but took pity Dolasila, turned back and returned to the dwarf box. They smiled and asked him to follow them to the lake and throw the gray powder because they could not do it.
So the treasure would blossom from the bottom of the lake and the dwarfs would have been free. This gift to the fur Dolasila saying: "From the makers that you make it a shell. So it becomes an invincible warrior. But when the armor will change color becoming as red as the sunset in the Dolomites, then do not go into battle."
Back at the castle, one of the older masters pulled the skin so thin that it becomes a marmot lightweight armor, but very strong. With the silver that never ended the authors made a bow to the warrior and twelve trumpets sounded wonderful. After some time the king returned the lake to see if it had flourished as they had promised the dwarfs. The whole lake was covered with silver rods. One of the squires chopped twelve barrels for it for the period of thirteen arrows Dolasila.
The arrows were so powerful and precise that the king had cut all the canes to get arrows for all the wars. The king had forgotten Aurona, but was seized by the fever of battle. Dolasila rode beside him, proud of his white armor, his bow and his arrows. His first victory was celebrated in Plan de Corones, because they Dolasila was crowned the princess warrior. One day, after a bloody battle, the princess was sad and thought of his strange fate which led her to give the death, against his fate as a woman. Although he had dreamed that the thirteen arrows would bring bad luck, Dolasila continued to fight and win.
firms Dolasila and anger at having lost the turbo spin Raieta de Mul. Lastoieres that I had instigated against Fanes had been defeated and humiliated by Dolasila. Spina de Mul sought allies against the kingdom of Fanes, but the shining star of Fanes high: both Landrins Caiütes both were defeated. Then plug de Mul went looking for the prince of Durannes, quell'Edl de Net who had defeated him in one night managed to inflame the Nuvolau with tales of the king of the pride and beauty of Fanes Dolasila. Edl de Net participated in the war against Fanes putting, however, a clause: Dolasila had to be saved. The allies gathered at the Boite. Even Fanes they prepared for battle. For the first time the prince went down in the field by one arm.
From the sky fell a great eagle with its beak and claws aflame with gold. Fanes recognized now their totem animal. Was chosen for the battle of the plain Fiames. Net appeared alongside Edl de Spina de Mul disguised as a warrior. Suddenly they heard the ringing of silver trumpets Fanes. At the head of his warriors appeared Dolasila. After beating the Peleghetes first and then the Princess Lastoieres bright as the sun was heading toward Durannes Net fixed while Edl de Dolasila dazzled. The two men faced each property, with weapons drawn, lost in a gaze. In this moment de Mul Spina gave one of his arrows and shot fairy Dolasila Aquila which was supported by the Prince and carried away from the battle. The valiant Durannes were defeated. From a Aguana on the shores of Lake Antermoia Edl de Net Dolasila learned that she had to make a warrior and they often rode to the lakes to speak with Aguan to tell them the pain of his love for a warrior who had seen once. I also told him that the fate was sealed and that Fanes Dolasila was in danger. Edl de Net decided to save her, but did not know how.
The Aguana advised him to seek a prince who had become a beggar and they sent him to Zicuta's sister Spina de Mul, who hated the king of Fanes, because he had not wanted to marry him. Had to wait seven days, finally the sky darkened and the rock was covered with poppies dark as blood. Edl de Net you went and found the witch Zicuta. Zicuta told the noble Duranno Fanes that the kingdom was doomed. In truth to Edl de Net is not interested in the realm of Fanes nor its history and its destiny. He was only interested Dolasila. "Climb the mountain Latemar," he said Zicuta, "and ask the dwarf to manufacture a shield so heavy that no one else can take it. With this Dolasila shield will defend. "A moment later she was gone and the poppies became blacks and turned into a pile of ashes.
Dolasila lying wounded in the castle of Fanes. To protect it would have to build a shield and only dwarves Latemar I knew the formula. Latemar The king went on and was very surprised to find his shield ready. The king had to bring the shield to the castle, but he knew immediately that no one was able to wear it. One day he appeared at a royal palace young foreigner who lifted the shield with one hand. The king hired him as the bearer of a shield to protect Dolasila in battle. Fanes I went back to fight and win. Dolasila rode in the front row, protected by Net shield carried by Edl de Great was the astonishment of the king, when he asked the young man's hand Dolasila. King proud, strongly wounded in his pride, he agreed only when the young Duranno told him to be a prince. Dolasila wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, but the king, the war is never enough. To be the greatest king of his time was still the underground kingdom of Auron and began to weave to get secret plots with his neighbors. So expelled from his kingdom Edl de Net.
Dolasila promised to her husband not to go more into battle without him. In the palace of Fanes there was confusion and despair. The enemy had declared war and had camped near the Col di Lana. Queen Dolasila called and begged her to save the kingdom. The princess could not decide: was the sacred promise made to her husband, her mother's sacred words, sacred to his people, the people of Fanes. Dolasila had made his decision, but his heart was heavy as a stone. He wandered on the lawns of 'Armentarola hoping to meet Edl de Net Returning to the castle came the bad boys thirteen and matted. A Dolasila they fear, and so gave the thirteen arrows and thirteen small fairy demons sent by Spina de Mul.
The white shell of the princess became dark as blood, and Dolasila remembered the prophecy of the seven dwarfs, and now he knew that his fate was dreamed of. So the princess Fanes led his people to death. Pralongià gathered on the Caiütes, the Cadubrenes, the Lastoieres, the Peleghetes, and the Latrones Ampezzo. Many were the people that the false king was able to gather by deception. It was nearing noon, without the battle is resolved to Fanes or allies. Dolasila armor had hidden from the mantle, but gleamed on his forehead the Raieta. So thirteen archers Caiütes recognized her in the fray and thirteen warriors struck Dolasila with thirteen cursed arrows. The princess fell transfixed by his own arrows and invoking Edl de Net mori. The hope of the kingdom of Fanes had waned.
The King of Fanes he was hidden on Lagazuoi waiting for the return of the Allies. Suddenly the king was seized by nostalgia for his people. He wanted to return to the castle but the allies were holding him prisoner, and everyone laughed at. It was a false king who had betrayed his people and as such became stone. step at the foot of Lagezuoi is still called Falzarego . Latest Fanes warriors had managed to escape the castle on Conturines. There, the queen had heard of the death of Dolasila.
suddenly appeared beside her a young girl dressed in white. Luianta was that the queen had given him to deal with the marmots, his secret allies.
The Queen Mother followed Luianta to a cave and asked forgiveness for having abandoned the deal. He told the alliance with the eagles and the exchange of sister marmot. Marmots understood, forgiven and accepted to renew the ancient pact. And Luianta led by the Queen in Morin Salvans, where the few survivors fled Fanes waiting for better times. This was a place underground, where the dwarves were working the gold and marmots spent their winter sleep. The enemy had destroyed everything that had built Fanes and the kingdom, once so flourishing, looked like a desert.
The thirteen arrows kept Spina and de Mul Raieta was hidden in a cave guarded by bears. Once a year, on a moonlit night, a black boat goes around the Lake Braies. Exits from a rock door and goes on still waters of the lake. On the boat sit the old queen and Luianta. They await the sound of silver trumpets, waiting for the big time, when the long-promised return, the time when the kingdom will rise again Fanes.
The Park Fanes Senes Braies covers an area of \u200b\u200b25,680 hectares and is surrounded by seemingly insurmountable cliffs, dense forests that overhang.
The park extends west to the Val Badia, in the north to Plaetzwiese and Pusteria, east to the Val di Landro and south to Val Travenanzes.
Within this chain of mountains opens up a magical world: Fanes Alpe, Alpe di Senes, Fosses and the Alpe di Prato Piazza.
Large forest consists mainly of spruce, pine cimbro, Scots pine and larch. The woods grow shrubs such as blueberry and red rhododendron . Higher when the forest is more often found large areas covered with pine . These forests are inhabited by deer, martens, foxes, ermine, hare Alpine, the nutcrackers and sometimes you can spot some birds of prey like the hawk and the goshawk .
In areas further downstream dominate the big pasture land where they grow many species of plants as arnica, gentian, orange the radichella and many other species.
Braies The town belongs to the Nature Park Fanes - Senes and Braies. The name is attested for the first time between 965 and 973 as Pragas, between 1085 and 1097 and in 1298 as PRAGES as Prags and appears to be pre-Roman origin, perhaps connected to the Celtic word * bracu ("Marsh") or * barga ("hut"). At an altitude of 1469 meters, is located on Lake Braies ( Pragser Wildsee ) that lies at the foot of the cliff Seekofel ( ted. Seekofel, lad. Sass dla Porta m. 2810). Around the lake can be accomplished only by foot or by rowboat.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of the Iceman mummy known as Ötzi, has been faithfully reconstructed and you can admire from 1 March to 15 January 2012, the Museum of Archaeology Adige in Bolzano, at the temporary exhibition "Ötzi20" . The Dutch artists Adrie and Alfons Kennis have rebuilt the Man Iceman (a finding of no less than 5,300 years ago) with the aid of 3D models of the skull and infrared imaging and CT. The work of two artists, known in virtue of their reconstructions, shows a man coming from the Stone Mountain real and surprisingly, the color of skin wrinkles of the forehead to the smallest: medium height, slender but muscular, with a gaunt, angular face, long beard and sunburned skin
Photographer Heike Engel ( 21Lux) documented for six months, the Kennis brothers' work, capturing the entire exclusive reconstruction process. Thanks to his photographs, the observer has the feeling of being in the studio the two artists.
The Renaissance is a period of Italian history during which all pre-unitary states were combined into a single state called the Kingdom of Italy.
Risorgimento also means the cultural movement, which promoted political and social unification , referring to the ideal of romantic and nationalist identity uniform.
The beginning of the Risorgimento as a movement, took place immediately after the end of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the annexation of the Papal States and to move the capital to Rome in February 1871.
On March 17 this year celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 'Unity of Italy .
From spring 1859 to spring of 1861 , was born from a ' Italy divided into seven states, the new kingdom a path that starts from the military victory of the Franco-Piedmont in 1859 and contemporary progressive crumbling of the various Italian states who had tied their fate to the presence of Austria in the peninsula and ends with the proclamation of King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy.
The logo of the anniversary is represented three tricolor flags that indicate three anniversaries of the 1911, 1061 and 2011 . The symbolic significance of the celebration refers to a message of national unity and identity and testifies to the commitment to promote the country as an expression of reality and peculiarities of all the regions that compose it.
In Norway, the island of Rodoy , was found a rock carvings (dating back to 2000 BC) where it represented a human figure with a pair of skis feet.
But the Lapps that more than 2000 years ago used a copy of symmetric cross-shaped: a long and slender to slip and another shorter and underneath the skin of a seal, to give ourselves a boost. In
Stories of Herodotus (IV century BC) we talk about with peoples of Asia Minor " wooden shoes" for traveling on snow, has also been found in 'archaic Chinese script exists an ideogram meaning and indicates a specific tool: the " tablet to slide .
With skis you can go from 300 to 400 km per day, and it seems that the colonization of America occurred with skis . At the end of the 800
Mathias Zdarsky shorter skis up to m. 1.80 (more than three meters!) Patents and 25 types of attacks, more functional and " Lilienfelder " (the name of his village) to prevent the foot from sliding sideways.
For ski competitions have to wait half 800 when the Norwegian Sondre Nordheim , a resident of the Norwegian Telemark, he invented a style that telemark ", making it a sport. The first real race came in 1843, in typical sports Tromsø, also in Norway. Seventeen years later, in 1860, King organized a real official competition in Oslo, putting at stake Cup Holmenkollen .
Before the circulation in Central Europe, skiing knew his luck from 1854 onwards in Canada, Nevada and California on the border between the diggers or o.
In Italian Alpine valley ski instead arrived with much delay, except for a very limited area of \u200b\u200bthe meat for a special occasion: in the Thirty Years' War soldiers participated in a group of Scandinavians, that the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 remained in Carnia, cramming so this costume, but he did not much hold on the villagers. The spread of skiing in Italy will have to wait until 1886, when the numismatic and mountaineer Edward Martinori i, returning from a voyage in Ski Lapland, brings back the pair of skis he used, which gave to the Roman section of the Italian Alpine Club , founded by him, causing a considerable interest in the press.
Today, ski disciplines are:
The castle was built by Mr von Montalban in the first half of the thirteenth century. This noble family was defeated by the Counts of Tyrol and the castle became the property of the Principles of Tyrol.
After some exchanges of property, in 1531 the castle became the property of Hendl , who rebuilt the castle and widened in some parts. During the period from 1813 until 1824 the castle was ravaged by numerous fires. Only one side was remodeled by the owners as a private house, the rest of the castle so he could then become a ruin.
Finally, in 1956 the castle was bought by the Italian . Only, after years of legal battles between the Count von Hendl and the Italian State, it was decided by mutual agreement, a figure purchase price of 31,068 lire.
Hendl The family was originally from Switzerland who have moved in the Tyrol at the beginning of the fourteenth century. From the documentation available indicates that Perthold Hendl lived in Imst in Tyrol in 1319. Perthold Hendl was the founder of the dynasty that ended in 1998 when he died, the Countess von Elvira Hendl.
Gsies is a town that lies in the valley, starting from the village of Monguelfo. All around, it extends the uncontaminated areas of the valley, formed in the course of centuries from Rio Casies. There are many paths, trails and scenic routes, including trips to the Kaser hut, hut Laxiden, the Panorama Trail Talblick.
Every year in February there is the "Gran Fondo Val Casies " famous cross-country race that winds for 42 km along the entire valley.
