Valli del Noce
Themed threads
While writing the entries for the places, connections emerged that no guidebook puts together: the same painters thirty kilometres apart, a bishop who consecrates eight churches in a single year, two brothers from Molveno behind the first ascents of the Brenta, and churches built in the eighteenth century for people coming from elsewhere. These are the threads we have found, and they grow every time a new entry is written.
24 placesThe bishops who consecrated on tour
Four bishops, four years, and some twenty churches blessed around the valleys.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
20 placesBernardo Clesio
The prince-bishop who came from a castle in Val di Non.Follow the threadAlessandro Vecchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
17 placesThe Baschenis family
A family of painters from Bergamo at work in the valleys for generations.Follow the threadChristian Stringari · CC BY-SA 3.0
17 placesThe Thun family
Six hundred years in the same valley, and a family that mattered in Europe.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
17 placesFrescoes covered and rediscovered
Centuries of wall painting vanished under lime, and partly brought back to light.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
15 placesThe bells
Who cast them, who took them away, and one that weighs 2,900 kilos.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
12 placesThe Spaur family
From the thirteenth century to today, a family that recurs in castles and churches.Follow the threadTerribile62 · CC0
11 placesThe master builders of Val d’Intelvi and Lake Como
Half the churches in the valleys were built by master builders from elsewhere.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Tonale forts
The Austro-Hungarian barrier that closed the road to the pass.Follow the threadChristian Stringari · CC BY-SA 3.0
6 placesThe Nicolussis, guides from Molveno
Two brothers from a lakeside village opened up the hardest peaks of the Brenta.Follow the threadS.F. · CC BY-SA 3.0
5 placesMeinhard II of Tyrol
How Tyrol took Val di Non, castle by castle.Follow the threadLlorenzi · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Peasants’ War of 1525
The peasants’ revolt, and the castles that felt it.Follow the threadTerribile62 · CC0
4 placesTourism before tourism
Churches built in the eighteenth century for people coming from elsewhere.Follow the threadSyrio · CC BY-SA 4.0
Every connection comes from our entries, where the facts are checked against the sources. The threads grow as the entries grow. The course of the Noce comes from the hydrography of the Autonomous Province of Trento (CC0).