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Chiesa dei Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano
Consecrated in 1497, and the Baschenis came straight away to paint it.
Peio
Churches and sanctuaries 13
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Chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo
Four different masters painted on it, in almost three centuries.
Peio
Giorgio Galeotti · CC BY 4.0
Chiesa dell'Immacolata e di San Bernardo di Mentone
At 3,535 metres, it is the highest masonry church in Europe.
Peio
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Chiesa di Maria Madre della Chiesa
It has no bell tower: it still uses the one belonging to the church it replaced.
Peio
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Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
Of a whole village swept away around 1431, only she was said to have remained.
Peio
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Chiesa di San Camillo de Lellis
The bell tower was paid for by holidaymakers, and a plaque commemorates it.
Peio
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Chiesa di San Giorgio
Fires in the village burned its written memory.
Peio
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Chiesa di San Matteo
Three fires in seventy years, and the first took the bell tower with it.
Peio
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Chiesa di San Rocco
A Celtic-Rhaetian fortress, a plague and a war cemetery, on the same piece of land.
Peio
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Chiesa di Sant'Agostino
It belonged to the Madonna for two centuries, before passing to Sant’Agostino.
Peio
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio di Padova
On one side it has the bell tower, on the other a private house.
Peio
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Chiesa di Santa Lucia
The miners wanted it, and a bequest of 1374 was paid in iron.
Peio
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Chiesetta di Malga Mare
It was built by the workers who were putting up the Careser dam.
Peio
Nature 7
Area Faunistica Runcal
In località Runcal, on the road between Peio Fonti and Peio Paese: the red deer and roe deer of the Parco dello Stelvio up close.
Peio
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Cascata del Rio Vioz
Above Peio Paese, not far from the lago di Còvel, in the Stelvio National Park.
Peio
Centro Visitatori Pejo
At Cogolo di Peio, in the headquarters of the Trentino sector of the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio.
Peio
Giardino botanico di Olga Casanova
Botanical park of alpine plants run by the Olga Casanova farm, in the locality of Mezzoli in Peio.
Peio
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Lago del Careser
It lies at 2,603 metres and collects the water of a glacier.
Peio
Malga Talè
Old malga above Peio Paese, now a visitor centre of the Stelvio Park dedicated to the tetraonids, the Alpine galliform birds.
Peio
Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio
National park since 1935 around the Ortles-Cevedale; in Trentino it includes the Val di Peio and the Val di Rabbi.
Peio
Material culture 6
Casa Grazioli o «Casa de la Béga»
A farmhouse in Strombiano lived in until 1991, left as it was.
Peio
Caseificio turnario di Peio
The last turnario dairy in Trentino, in piazza San Giorgio.
Peio
Centrale Idroelettrica di Cogolo
In the locality of Pont, in Cogolo, the hydroelectric power station of 1929 that draws on the waters of the Careser and Pian Palù.
Peio
Laboratorio di tessitura «Gianni Rigotti»
At Celentino, where the valley's flax and wool become cloth once again.
Peio
Molin dei Turi
The only one of the four water mills of Peio Paese that can still be visited.
Peio
Segheria veneziana e Museo del legno di Celledizzo
In the old Venetian sawmill of Celledizzo, the intact carpenter's workshop and a museum of wood.
Peio
Museums and collections 4
Ecomuseo della Val di Peio Piccolo Mondo Alpino
The Val di Peio told village by village: mines, houses, mills, dairies, sawmills.
Peio
Museo del contadino di montagna
In an eighteenth-century maso at 1,720 metres above Celledizzo, the life of mountain farmers between 1750 and 1950.
Peio
Museo delle Streghe
In Peio Paese, a small ethnographic museum dedicated to folk magic and witchcraft.
Peio
Museo Laboratorio dell'epigrafia popolare
In the stable of Malga Monte, at 2,214 metres above Celentino, a museum devoted to the writings left by shepherds and travellers.
Peio
Other places 4
Lo Scoiattolo
At almost 2,000 metres on the slopes of Peio, in the locality of Tarlenta, where the Pejo 3000 cable car starts.
Peio
Nestalp Malga Campo
At 1,979 metres above Celentino, in Val di Peio: an alpine pasture that is also a farm stay and a small museum of the malga.
Peio
Rifugio Larcher al Cevedale
At 2,608 metres towards the Cevedale, two hours above Malga Prabon.
Peio
Rifugio Vioz «Mantova»
At 3,535 metres, just below the summit of the Vioz: the second highest refuge in the Eastern Alps.
First World War 2
Wellness 1
Archaeology 1
More from above
Valle di Pejo
On foot and by bike
31 recorded routes covering 166 kilometres, plus the provincial cycle route that crosses it.
See the routes in Valle di Pejo
Provincial register of trails. © SAT.
Waters and protected areas
From the Province’s open data: 35 bodies of water with a name and altitude (3 artificial); the main watercourses: Torrente Noce, Torrente Noce Bianco; 9 protected areas, including a park.
The lakes of Valle di PejoProtected areas
Registers of the Autonomous Province of Trento: waters in the public domain, protected areas CC BY 4.0.
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