Basilica dei Santi Martiri Anauniesi
The church of Sanzeno dedicated to Sisinio, Martirio and Alessandro, the martyrs of 397, built from 1480
Sanzeno
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Val di Non
The valleys
La valle dei meleti e dei castelli, con una densita' di manieri rara nelle Alpi.
186 places listed, 186 of them with a written entry
Municipalities: Amblar-Don, Borgo d'Anaunia, Bresimo, Campodenno, Cavareno, Cis, Cles, Contà, Dambel, Denno, Livo, Novella, Predaia, Romeno, Ronzone, Ruffré-Mendola, Rumo, Sanzeno, Sarnonico, Sfruz, Spormaggiore, Sporminore, Ton, Ville d'Anaunia

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Val di Non
The church of Sanzeno dedicated to Sisinio, Martirio and Alessandro, the martyrs of 397, built from 1480
Sanzeno

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Pastoral visitation records call it sometimes the church of Sant'Egidio, sometimes that of Sant'Andrea.
Novella

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It is its frescoes that make it older than the documents.
Novella

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An eighteenth-century chapel remade to resemble the Lourdes grotto.
Novella

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It was dated through studies of the Baschenis frescoes.
Ville d'Anaunia

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Before Saints Fabiano and Sebastiano, it was the church of San Maurizio.
Cavareno

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From 1734 the community elected the priest for the morning mass.
Ton

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In 1621 the vault of its nave collapsed.
Predaia

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A fire in 1802, and a new church in place of the old one.
Contà

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Sold at auction for three hundred florins, it was bought back by the counts.
Campodenno

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Two fires, and the first carried off the village archives.
Denno

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Of the old church only the bell tower was saved, and it still serves the new one.
Novella

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In 1449, a census of four measures of wine.
Campodenno

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In the 17th century its frescoes were whitewashed on the order of a pastoral visitation.
Sanzeno

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Built between 1943 and 1948, with the money and the labour of the village.
Predaia

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In 1611 a fire burned the church and the castle together.
Predaia

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The village was divided over where to build it, then cholera arrived.
Contà

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The second church of Dambel, mentioned since 1491.
Dambel

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The independence of the parish was decided by a court in Vienna.
Sporminore

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A papal indulgence of 1468 to pay for its restoration.
Sporminore

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The frescoes in the nave are inspired by Dürer's Small Passion.
Bresimo

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The new church took the name of the old one, which had to change its own.
Ronzone

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A parish priest travelled all over the Tyrol to pay for it, in a year of drought and war.
Campodenno

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In 1815 it was reconsecrated after a profanation about which nothing is known.
Livo

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It was built for the Holy Year of 1950.
Spormaggiore

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In 1579 it was the church where children were buried.
Ville d'Anaunia

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It lost importance when the village preferred the larger church.
Sarnonico

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In 1232 the bishop ordered Revò to send someone to administer the sacraments.
Rumo

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It was consecrated when the bell tower was not yet finished.
Novella

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Mentioned in 1265, and grown over four centuries in small steps.
Predaia

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It was consecrated three times, in the fifteenth century, in 1649 and in 1886.
Predaia

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It stands near Malga Romeno, which, however, lies within the municipality of Amblar-Don.
Amblar-Don

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It stands near Castel Bragher, held by the Thun family for six hundred years.
Predaia

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Built in 1865, in the locality of Raina.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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Of the five bells, the war left one, the oldest.
Spormaggiore

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Beneath the church, a Roman watchtower.
Livo

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In 1558 it was still very small, and it already had three altars.
Predaia

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The seventeenth-century altar preserves the remains of a Gothic triptych.
Novella

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Dating from 1910, in the hamlet that shares its parish church with Lanza.
Rumo

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In 1395 a man setting out for Jerusalem left it the oil for its lamp.
Campodenno

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In the apse, a cycle of frescoes from 1485, by a Baschenis.
Contà

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In 1830 the bishop had half of it demolished.
Romeno

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In 1741 it received the Eucharistic reservation, but only for part of the year.
Bresimo

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The beams were quickly saved from an attack of woodworm.
Ville d'Anaunia

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In 1537 it was recorded as dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Romeno

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In the choir is the name of the man who rebuilt it, with the date: 1512.
Novella

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Rebuilt twice in two centuries, and consecrated in 1558 like the others here.
Sarnonico

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Beneath the church stood a Roman temple, and before that, people of the Iron Age.
Cis

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Dated by tree rings: after 1150, the oldest in Terres.
Contà

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In 1977 a theft carried off four wooden works attributed to Ramus.
Sarnonico

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Once new, a vault ruined the frescoes of Giovanni Baschenis.
Contà

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In 1506 a landslide carried away part of it.
Rumo

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It ended up inside Castel Firmian and became its private chapel.
Cles

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The dedication to Saint Marcellus came only with the consecration of 1500.
Predaia

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Clesio's envoys visited it on 23 June 1537 and found it small.
Predaia

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A pieve mentioned in 1184, and a bell tower raised by builders from Val d'Intelvi.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The bell tower was built in 1694; the bell arrived in 1762.
Novella

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To lengthen it by two bays, they had to rebuild its façade.
Livo

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Abandoned and restored three times in four centuries.
Ton

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For two years it was the seat of the Compagnia dei Battuti.
Predaia

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It was probably attached to a small monastery, and today it forms part of a maso.
Campodenno

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Three altars in 1537, two in 1579: even the furnishings have a history.
Predaia

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It was enlarged in 1420 because the pieve had been damaged in war.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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It appears in a will of 1486.
Ville d'Anaunia

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In the accounts of 1562 the building work is recorded in dialect.
Ton

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A market field on a hill that was once a hill fort.
Campodenno

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It is the new church that made the other one old, and it stands in the same street.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The new one was built right beside it, with the same name.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The frescoes were already finished in 1399, sixty-eight years before the first mention.
Cles

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Perhaps from 1530, and in 1847 it was put back on its feet after a fire.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The old church was destroyed by arson in 1824.
Cles

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During the works of the eighteenth century, a fresco of San Rocco and a coat of arms came to light.
Predaia

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First a chapel, then the sacristy, and the bell tower two centuries later.
Predaia

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The bells requisitioned in the war, recast as soon as peace returned.
Predaia

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In 1579 it was found in very poor condition, and two centuries later it was rebuilt.
Ville d'Anaunia

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Frescoes hidden beneath limewash for four centuries.
Cles

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The second San Valentino of the valleys, and there is a doubt about the other.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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She too, originally, belonged to Saints Fabiano and Sebastiano.
Sanzeno

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Perhaps it is not dedicated to the Saint Valentine whom everyone celebrates.
Novella

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Since 1504 it has not changed shape: only restorations.
Ville d'Anaunia

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It flooded with every rainfall, so they rebuilt it from scratch.
Amblar-Don

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Consecrated twice in thirty years, the second time because the altar had been moved.
Rumo

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Tradition has it founded in the fourth century; the documents begin in 1391.
Ton

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The statue stolen in 1974 returned to its place two years later.
Spormaggiore

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The oldest in Cles, mentioned in a document of 1191.
Cles

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In 1853 a fire burned part of the village, and the church with it.
Novella

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It stands beside a maso, in the locality of San Vito alto.
Cles

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The parish priest spent everything on the bell tower, and the church remained bare.
Predaia

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Finished in 1744, and twenty-two years later still not consecrated.
Sfruz

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The bells arrived before the bell tower, and stood in the middle of the village.
Predaia

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Restored in 1975, emptied by a theft three years later.
Denno

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The fifteenth-century cycle of frescoes is by the Baschenis.
Predaia

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It bore three names before becoming the church of Sant'Anna.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The cemetery was built beside it, and a century later moved outside the village.
Ruffré-Mendola

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Between the fourteenth and the nineteenth century it changed its patron saint four times.
Ronzone

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The cemetery, too close by, filled it with damp, and it was the cemetery that was moved.
Sanzeno

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In the 18th century, a hermit lived beside the church.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The loggia in front of the façade is called glesiot here.
Livo

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Of the frescoes whitewashed in 1616, nothing more has been learned.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The frescoes were not covered over by a bishop; they were ruined by a disinfection carried out against cholera.
Romeno

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It is the convent church that the two valleys paid for because of a vow.
Cles

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The new name is probably linked to a local family.
Campodenno

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Almost two hundred years as a hermitage at the mouth of the Val di Tovel.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The oldest part is the bell tower, and the cross on the roof bears the date the works were completed.
Predaia

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The new church was built beside the old one, which was partly demolished.
Ville d'Anaunia

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Giovanni and Battista Baschenis frescoed it in 1471, inside and out.
Rumo

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The old church, half demolished, became the cemetery chapel.
Amblar-Don

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It is the church that in 1954 took the place of the Santi Filippo e Giacomo.
Predaia

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Mentioned from 1448, and touched up in the 17th century.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The bell tower is a small wooden turret set on the roof.
Cles

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Built on the ruins of a castle of Mainardo II of Tyrol.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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In 1236 a bull of Gregory IX took it under papal protection.
Sanzeno

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In Cloz the two districts are also called by the names of their churches.
Novella

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Its first trace lay in a parchment from Castel Bragher.
Cles

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Remains dating to at least the 4th century BC have emerged beneath the floor.
Cles

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More than four centuries pass between the first building and the bell tower.
Dambel

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Three fires in four and a half centuries, and each time it was put back on its feet.
Predaia

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Dardine refused to pay the tax for the restoration work.
Ton

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Rebuilt in the sixteenth century on the model of the parish church of Cles.
Ville d'Anaunia

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The side altars come from a Dominican convent suppressed in Bolzano.
Romeno

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In 1851 a hotel swallowed it up, and from the outside only the façade remains.
Cles

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The old parish church still stands at the other end of the square.
Cavareno
Born of a vow made on setting out for the crusade of 1241.
Contà

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It was still a chapel in 1538, and became a parish church only in 1919.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The largest bell weighs twenty-nine quintals and is called Stefana.
Novella

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It was consecrated in 1345 as the church of Santa Maria.
Romeno

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An indulgence of 1478, requested by the lord of the castle.
Campodenno

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A document of 1320 states that it already existed before 1106.
Novella

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It was paid for by the communities of the two valleys, to keep a vow.
Cles

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A community dying out, counted in the documents.
Novella
The remains of the hermitage under an overhanging rock above Lake Santa Giustina, just below Cagnò
Novella

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Five churches balanced on the rock face, built over nine hundred years.
The late Renaissance palace of the De Maffei family in the heart of Revò, now owned by the Comune
Novella

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The fortress of the Khuen-Belasi, saved by the municipality and now a home for art and ecological thought.
Campodenno

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Seven centuries in the same family, on a spur between Coredo and Taio.
Predaia

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A thirteenth-century tower, the house of the Concini, and a nineteenth century that changed its face.
Sanzeno

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The house of the Cles family, rebuilt by Bernardo Clesio, reflected in Lake Santa Giustina.
Cles

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Burnt in 1611, rebuilt in 1726, reopened in 2019.
Predaia

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Half medieval fortress, half romantic residence.
Romeno

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The castle of the lords of the rose, later a court of law, where Depero was born.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The Mori became Morenberg, and the fortress became a home, then burned down.
Sarnonico

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The house from which the Madruzzo family sprang, among the apple orchards of Nanno.
Ville d'Anaunia
Three palaces and a garden in 1380, a ruin in 1774, houses in the 1920s.
Rumo

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It was demolished in 1860 to make way for the fort that can still be seen.
Ton
The ruins of the castle of the Sporo family above Sporminore, also known as Castel Sant'Anna
Sporminore

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Eighteen years of restoration to reopen the home of a European family.
Ton

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The octagonal keep, unique in the Alps, and the castle that Trento bought in 2023.
Ville d'Anaunia
The highest castle in Trentino, 1,280 metres above Baselga di Bresimo
Bresimo
The bridgehead with which the Tyrol took the Val di Non, later home to the Thun family for five centuries.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The castle of the Arsio family, which faces Vasio across the gorge of the Novella.
Novella

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On the gorge of the Novella, where an ancient road crossed the torrent.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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The tower house of the Aliprandini, now Livo town hall, with the rose on its portal.
Livo
Bivouac at 2,102 metres below the summit of Monte Luco, on SAT path O133 «Aldo Bonacossa».
Bivouac at 1,846 metres in the locality of Manzar, in the mountains of Castelfondo, in the municipality of Borgo d'Anaunia.
Baita owned by the Comune di Ruffrè-Mendola at 1,390 metres, reached by a short detour from the "sentiero dei Signori".
At 2,790 metres below Cima Sassara, on the northern ridge of the Brenta, owned by the SAT since 1972.
Ville d'Anaunia
Bivouac at 1,850 metres in the municipality of Novella, near the Malga di Brez, above the Forcella di Brez.
SAT bivouac at 1,986 metres in the Val di Bresimo, in the Maddalene group, along path O115.
Malga owned by the Comune di Amblar-Don at 1,650 metres, at the foot of Monte Roen, already mentioned in 1771.
At 1,771 metres on Monte Roen: it bears the name of Romeno, but lies in the municipality of Amblar-Don.
Alpine refuge at 1,925 metres above Rumo, also known as Malga Val, renovated by the Comune di Rumo and inaugurated in 2009.
At 2,022 metres between the Val di Non and the Val di Sole, owned by the SAT of Cles.
At 1,397 metres on the Predaia plateau, a hikers' refuge born in the post-war years for those who climbed up to make hay.
Hiking refuge at 1,203 metres on the Predaia plateau, with an adventure park among the trees.
Ten hectares of peat bog protected since 1992.
Novella
Four hectares protected since 1992, in the upper Val di Non.
Novella

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Just outside Tret, a hamlet of Borgo d'Anaunia in the upper Val di Non, close to the border with Alto Adige.
Borgo d'Anaunia

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On the summit stands a metal cross more than nine metres tall.
Campodenno
The little lake of Coredo among the meadows and woods of the Predaia plateau, next to Lake Tavon
Predaia

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When the water drops, the bridges that the lake submerged come back to the surface.
Sanzeno

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Artificial lake for irrigation at 868 metres, near Tavon and Coredo, in the municipality of Predaia.
Predaia
The alpine lake at the head of the val di Tovel, at 1,177 metres, within the Parco naturale Adamello Brenta
Ville d'Anaunia
The artificial lake at Fondo, at 1001 metres, green like its name among the woods of the upper Val di Non
Borgo d'Anaunia

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A protected route to the summit, above two valleys.
Ton
Its two pistes are floodlit, and you can ski here at night too.
Ruffré-Mendola
The park of Alpine animals on the Paganella plateau: the bear above all
Spormaggiore
In a vòlto of a house in Mione, objects from the past with their names in dialect beside them.
Rumo
The rural life of the upper Anaunia, from the woods to the school, in a village above Fondo.
Ronzone
At Casa Marta, the costumes left in Coredo by the groups taking part in the Festival internazionale del folclore.
Predaia
Hand pumps from 1898, helmets and uniforms: the history of the volunteer firefighters of Taio.
Predaia

More from above
Val di Non
140 recorded routes covering 709 kilometres, including 6 vie ferrate, plus the 2 provincial cycle routes that cross it.
Provincial register of trails. © SAT.
From the Province’s open data: 21 bodies of water with a name and altitude (7 artificial); the main watercourses: Torrente Noce, Torrente Tresenica, Torrente Novella; 41 protected areas, including a park.
The lakes of Val di NonProtected areas
Registers of the Autonomous Province of Trento: waters in the public domain, protected areas CC BY 4.0.
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