Val di Sole

Chiesa dei Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano

It burned down twice in forty years, the first time along with the whole village.

Vermiglio

Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo

The date of the rebuilding is written above the window of the bell tower.

Caldes

Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo

The Gothic vaults of 1536 were raised by Lombard craftsmen.

Mezzana

Chiesa dei Santi Romedio e Domenico

The date of its construction is unknown, but not that of its consecration: 1628.

Malé

Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesù

It came into being together with the Capuchin convent, in the 1890s.

Terzolas

Chiesa dell'Annunciazione

The 1976 earthquake damaged it, and two years later it had been put right.

Caldes

Chiesa della Madonna del Carmelo

Perhaps it took the place of a private building.

Caldes

Chiesa della Madonna di Caravaggio

After the war it was reduced to a storeroom, and it took eleven years to reopen it.

Mezzana

Chiesa della Madonna di Loreto

It was consecrated in 1672 by a prince-bishop of the Thun family.

Dimaro Folgarida

Chiesa della Madonna Regina della Pace

Built at Fazzon between 1961 and 1964.

Pellizzano

Chiesa della Natività di Maria

The porch frescoed by Simone Baschenis in 1533.

Pellizzano

Chiesa della Natività di San Giovanni Battista

The old church was sold and put to other use.

Dimaro Folgarida

Chiesa della Santissima Trinità

Built in six years, and reinforced a few years later.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di San Bartolomeo

The bell tower was blessed by a cardinal of Palermo, a son of Caldes.

Caldes

Chiesa di San Bartolomeo vecchia

It was founded in 1127 as a hospice for those crossing the Tonale.

Vermiglio

Chiesa di San Carlo Borromeo

The torrent swept it away, so they rebuilt it higher up.

Ossana

Chiesa di San Cristoforo

Painted by the Baschenis, and in 1617 an order was given to cover everything.

Mezzana

Chiesa di San Giacomo Maggiore

The village was called Solasna, and took its name from the saint of its church.

Caldes

Chiesa di San Giorgio

An amended will left the village without daily Mass.

Croviana

Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

A will of 1610 brought it into being, and in 1986 an avalanche struck it.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di San Giuseppe

The second church that the Rossi di Piano family gave to this valley.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di San Lorenzo

A fragment of Carolingian fresco dates it back to the ninth century.

Dimaro Folgarida

Chiesa di San Luigi Gonzaga

The convent became a school, and the church took the patron saint of students.

Malé

Chiesa di San Marco

In 1464 a will called it San Zili, Egidio in Solandro.

Malé

Chiesa di San Martino

The fifteenth-century chapel can still be read in the right flank of the façade.

Cavizzana

Chiesa di San Nicolò

Rebuilt from scratch in seventeen years, keeping the old bell tower.

Terzolas

Chiesa di San Nicolò nuova

The Austrians used the bell tower as an observation post.

Pellizzano

Chiesa di San Nicolò vecchia

To widen the road, they pulled down its façade.

Pellizzano

Chiesa di San Pietro

She too burned twice, and the second time it was the war.

Vermiglio

Chiesa di San Rocco

It was founded by a nobleman who survived the plague of 1510.

Caldes

Chiesa di San Rocco

Five centuries of service, then the replacement.

Mezzana

Chiesa di San Rocco

Born of a popular vow against the plague, it burned down twice in six years.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di San Romedio

Of the seventeenth-century decoration, only one fresco remains.

Mezzana

Chiesa di San Tommaso

To enlarge it in 1617, its original apse was demolished.

Caldes

Chiesa di San Valentino

The first document to mention it, in 1348, is a bequest of oil.

Malé

Chiesa di San Vigilio

The pieve on which half-churches of the upper Val di Sole depended.

Ossana

Chiesa di San Vigilio

In 1824 the old church was replaced on the same site.

Caldes

Chiesa di San Vigilio

It first appears in the documents because of a boundary dispute.

Dimaro Folgarida

Chiesa di Sant'Agata

A fresco left half finished, completed by a Baschenis two generations later.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate

A landslide blocked its façade, and they built another.

Commezzadura

Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Padova

Thirty-two years of building work, and a painter from Mezzana.

Ossana

Chiesa di Santa Caterina in Colle

The apse was painted by Simone Baschenis in the mid-sixteenth century.

Vermiglio

Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

The pieve appears in a lease contract of 1178.

Malé

Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena

The Baschenis painted all of it, and in 1617 an order was given to remove every image.

Ossana

Chiesa di Santa Maria Vergine della Selva

From 1965, and it is the church of a ski resort.

Dimaro Folgarida

Chiesa di Santo Stefano

The floor of the hall is made of stone taken from the Tonale area.

Vermiglio

Bivacco Baselga

At 2,006 metres in the Val Baselga, above the Lago dei Caprioli: a spartan shelter in the old malga.

Pellizzano

Bivacco Costanzi

At 2,365 metres in Pra Castron, below Sasso Rosso and Cima Nana.

Dimaro Folgarida

Bivacco Dino Marinelli

At 2,075 metres just below the Cimon di Bolentina, above Malé: the only bivouac hut in the Vegaia-Tremenesca group.

Bivacco Jack Canali

At 2,480 metres in the upper Val di Bon, above Ossana, belonging to the CAI of Canzo since 1976.

Capanna Presena

At 2,735 metres in the Presena basin, above the Passo del Tonale, close to what remains of the glacier.

Restor Natura Malga Mondent

At 1,910 metres above Pracorno di Rabbi, the malga of the ASUC of Arnago at the foot of the Maddalene.

Malé

Rifugio ai Caduti dell'Adamello

At 3,040 metres, below the Passo della Lobbia Alta: the highest on these pages.

Vermiglio

Rifugio Albasini

At 1,856 metres in Malghet Aut, above Folgarida, where some ski lifts start and finish.

Rifugio Orso Bruno

At 2,156 metres, just below Monte Vigo, among the lifts that climb from Daolasa, Folgarida and Marilleva.

Rifugio Solander

At 2,052 metres in Prà del Lago, above Daolasa, near the arrival point of the cable car from the Val di Sole.

Rifugio Stavel «Francesco Denza»

At 2,298 metres at the foot of the Presanella, with a small lake in front, since 1899.

Fattore Legno

In Malé, an interactive museum trail dedicated to wood, set up inside a working carpentry workshop.

Malé

Fondazione San Vigilio «Stuva Nova»

In the old rectory of Ossana, an 18th-century room panelled in carved Swiss pine, set on fire in 1918 and rebuilt.

Ossana

Le meridiane artistiche

In Monclassico and Presson, hamlets of Dimaro Folgarida, almost sixty artists' sundials on the houses and in the squares.

Dimaro Folgarida

Mulino di Cortina

Water mill in the hamlet of Cortina, in Vermiglio, powered by the Rio Cortina and restored in 2016.

Vermiglio

Segheria Veneziana di Dimaro

On the edge of Dimaro, along the road to Madonna di Campiglio, a water-powered sawmill that remained in operation until 1960.

Dimaro Folgarida

Segheria Veneziana di Malé

In the locality of Molini di Malé, a "Venetian-style" sawmill built in 1774 and working again.

Malé

Segheria Veneziana di Ortisè

Water-powered sawmill between Ortisè and Menas, hamlets of Mezzana, on the north bank of the Rio Valletta, rebuilt and in working order.

Mezzana

Centro visita Malga Fazzon

In the Malga Bassa di Fazzon, above Pellizzano, a few hundred metres from the Lago dei Caprioli.

Pellizzano

Lago dei Caprioli

An artificial lake at 1,280 metres, in the locality of Fazzon.

Pellizzano

Monte Rèdival

A peak of 2,973 metres in the Ortles-Cevedale group, on the ridge that closes the Vermiglio valley to the north.

Vermiglio

Ontaneta Croviana

Damp woodland along the Noce between Croviana and Monclassico, a special area of conservation in the Natura 2000 network.

Croviana

Parco Fluviale Alto Noce

A network of reserves created in 2015 to protect the Noce and its tributaries in the Val di Sole.

Malé

Prati aridi di Arnago

Above Arnago, a hamlet of Malé, dry meadows and woods protected by the Natura 2000 network at the entrance to the Val di Rabbi.

Malé

Ecomuseo Val Meledrio

The Fosinace of Dimaro: in the sixteenth century twenty-eight forge hammers worked here, using iron from Comasine.

Dimaro Folgarida

Malé

The museum of Solandra civilisation and the frescoed houses of the centre.

MMape Mulino Museo dell'Ape

In the old water mill of Croviana, a museum devoted to bees and mountain beekeeping.

Croviana

Museo della Civiltà Solandra

Life in the Val di Sole as it was: fields, dairy, woodland, workshops, and the plates of the abbot Bresadola.

Malé

Museo della Guerra Bianca Vermiglio

At the Polo culturale di Vermiglio, the collection of the relic hunter Emilio Serra on the White War on the Tonale front.

Vermiglio

Forte Mero

The connecting work of the Tonale barrier, armed only with machine guns.

Vermiglio

Forte Presanella

The Pozzi Alti fort, at one thousand eight hundred and eighty metres above the Tonale road.

Vermiglio

Forte Strino

Austrian fort of 1860-1861 along the Tonale road, between Vermiglio and the pass, at 1,538 metres.

Vermiglio

Forte Velon

The small fort that defended the Strino at close quarters, later the telephone exchange of the Tonale forts.

Vermiglio

Galleria Paradiso

At the Passo Paradiso, at 2,573 metres above the Tonale, a First World War tunnel dug into the granite.

Vermiglio

Folgarida Marilleva

Linked to Campiglio, the skiing gateway to the Val di Sole.

Palestra Croz dei Pozzi

Una ventina di vie dal 5c al 7a vicino al rifugio Stavel «Francesco Denza», sotto la Presanella.

Vermiglio

Palestra Doss di Santa Brigida

Climbing crag on the Doss di Santa Brigida, in the municipality of Dimaro Folgarida, about twenty minutes on foot from Folgarida.

Dimaro Folgarida

Palestra Monticelli

Al Passo del Tonale, una quarantina di vie dal 4b all'8a su pareti alte fino a 120 metri.

Vermiglio

Castel Caldes

The tower house of the Cagnò, later of the Thun, and the prison of Olinda.

Caldes

Castello di San Michele

On the road to the Tonale since the 12th century: held by the bishops, then the Federici, then a ruin saved from decay.

Ossana