The Val Badia (Lad. Badia, Italian Val Badia) is a central valley system in the Dolomites in South-Tirol. The valley cut is the northern border between the Western Dolomites and the Eastern Dolomites and core region of the since 2009 to UNESCO World Natural Heritage belonging part of the Dolomites.
Regions
Actually it is a valley system with the main valley and some side valleys:
- Abbey valley, also Alta Badia is the name for the broad, southern and higher part of the Val Badia;
- Marebbe valley (Val the Marebbe)
- Rautal (Val dei Tamersc)
- Campilltal (Val di Longiarù)
places
- St. Vigil, Mountain village and tourist center with winter sports (Kronplatz) in the Enneberger Valley and its two fractions Enneberg and Corrugated clamps;
- St. Martin in Thurn (1135 m lad .: "S.Martin de Tor", Italian: "S.Martino in Badia") with the parts of the municipality Antermoia (1515 m, lad .: "Antermëia") and Campill (1398m, lad .: "Lungiarü");
- The community abbey (Lad. Badia) consists of the two localities St. Leonhard and Pedratsches.
- Wengen (Lad .: "La Val", Italian "La Valle")
Other goals
background
The Gadertal stretches around 35 km in length St. Lorenzen in the Val Pusteria to the south to the Sella group. The valley is quite narrow when approached from the north, but then widens noticeably towards the south.
The river gives its name to the valley system Gader, Ladin Ghaidra or Gran Ega for "Big Water", the Gader flows from south to north and flows into the Rienz in the Puster Valley at St. Lorenzen.
The oldest archaeological finds near the Passo Gardena prove the human presence in the period around 5000-7000 years before the turn of the times. Further archaeological finds at "Sotciastél" / St. Leonhard indicate that the region was settled by pre-Roman indigenous people (Celts) during the Bronze Age between the 16th and 13th centuries BC. Ch. Evidenced, it followed the rule of the Romans.
From 1027 the left side of the valley of the Gader belonged to the newly founded bishopric of Brixen, the right side of the valley belonged to the Pustertal county and thus to Tyrol, from 1803 the whole valley with Brixen became part of Tyrol.
During the First World War, the entire region of the Dolomites was the scene of the trench warfare between the Kaiserjäger on the Austrian / Tyrolean side and the opposing Italian Alpini. After the end of the war, the Val Badia was annexed by Italy in 1919 and connected to the Trentino.
Due to the remote location of the Val Badia, the Ladin language, also Rhaeto-Romanic, which is directly traced back to the Latin of the Romans, has survived into our times.
Pioneer for the modern tourism The k.u.k. major was in Val Badia Franz Kostner, a famous mountain guide who campaigned for the construction of new ski lifts in the valley in the 1930s. He also promoted the traffic engineering of the Gadertal by the "automobile company" he founded for tourist transport.
language
The valley is multilingual and with the Val Gardena One of the two Ladin valleys in South Tyrol: German and South Tyrolean are still spoken in the northern part, the Palfrad inn is the language and cultural border, and Ladin is spoken to the south. In the Ladin-speaking part, Ladin is also the regional official and school language, but German is mostly understood to some extent.
getting there
- The easiest way to access from the north is via the Val Pusteria with branch at St. Lorenzen.
- From the west of the Eisack Valley out:
- by the Villnößtal and about that Wurzjoch (2003 m), closed in winter, also only accessible for light traffic in summer, ban on buses;
- by the Val Gardena and the Gardena Pass (2121 m), the Jochstrasse is not always open in winter!
- Traffic report Mountain and pass roads with the current situation www.provinz.bz.it.
The nights Train stations are in Eisack Valley With Franzensfeste and Brixen or in the Pustertal with Brunico, from there by bus.
mobility
A Railway line does not exist in Val Badia.
Tourist Attractions
activities
In the winter
The ski areas in Alta Badia are part of the ski network Dolomiti Superski.
kitchen
nightlife
security
climate
For general information, see section climate in the article on the Dolomites.
literature
cards
- Grödnertal-Val Gardena-Sella-Marmolada, 1: 50,000; Vol.WKS 5. freytag & berndt, 2010, Hiking leisure map, ISBN 9783850847957 .
- Alta Badia / High Abbey 1: 25,000; Vol.Sheet 07. Tobacco, Topographic hiking map.
Web links
- Alta Bdia Tourism Association: www.altabadia.org.
- Geomorphological description for River Gader on www.provinz.bz.it.
