Val di Funes - Val di Funes

There Val di Funes (in German: Villnößtal) is a valley of the Trentino Alto Adige.

To know

Funes for its attention to promoting sustainable tourism and soft mobility, is a member of the consortium of Pearls of the Alps. Its valley is part of the tourist and administrative area of ​​the Valle Isarco, whose capital and main city is Bressanone.

Geographical notes

The Funes valley branches off between Bressanone is Closed, and from Chiusa (523 m a.s.l.) towards the east, up to the last inhabited center, Santa Maddalena (St. Magdalena, 1,339 m a.s.l.) one of the access points to Puez-Odle Natural Park. On the southern wall of the beginning of the valley is the village of Gudon, with the Summersberg Castle, a building dating back to 1270, initially formed by a quadrangular tower. Today this building gives a faithful idea of ​​a typical judicial prison of the late Middle Ages, recalling the trials of the Anabaptists and Lutherans.

Background

From the Stone Age, bundles with flint tips have been found. After this period, in the so-called protohistory, agricultural crops and livestock farming spread in Val Di Funes. The stable human settlement of Funes was accomplished first by the Reti, who were Latinized by the Romans, after their conquest, to constitute the Romansh language, and then by the Germans, and this colonization can be found in other Dolomite valleys. Funes originally belonged to the parish of Albes, together with Laion, Gudon, Val Gardena is Colfosco. In the main village of San Pietro in 1029 a church was erected, and the locality also had its own shepherd of souls. The village of Tiso was first mentioned in 1157 as Tisis. Around 1500 AD, the German language was consolidated, due to the many Bavarian immigrants, thus giving rise to the Funes dialect, in which however many words can also be derived from Romansh.

Territories and tourist destinations

Urban centers

How to get

By car

• A22 Brennero motorway: exit a Closed.
• To get to the valley there is mainly a single road, which in the first sections crosses a narrow and deep gorge, of porphyry walls or quartziferous phyllites. The valley, and therefore the road, begins to widen after the town of San Pietro, where you also begin to scrutinize the first Dolomite peaks: the Odle di Eores to the north-east and the peaks of the Odle di Funes to the south-east. .
  There is also a secondary road that connects the valley with the Eores valley and the Passo delle Erbe.

On the train

Railway stations of Closed is Bressanone.

How to get around

What see

• Mineralogical Museum of Tiso (Mineralienmuseum Teis), in Tiso.
• Church of San Giovanni in Ranui - The church, located immediately after the town of Santa Maddalena, was built in 1744 in Baroque art, and enjoys fame thanks to its gentle lines and its solitude, in a pleasant position. In order to visit it, you can ask for the keys at the adjacent Ranuihof farm.

Itineraries

• Castles of South Tyrol - A journey to discover the South Tyrolean manors which, born for military purposes, later became largely refined stately homes, centers of culture, examples of fine architecture, testimony to the greatness of the families who built them.

What to do

Snow, in winter, often and gladly covers this valley. Tourism is flourishing, thanks to the tranquility of the place and the possibility of skiing, snowshoeing (the popular destination is the Col di Poma), and sledding (there are two main slopes that start from the Zannes hut: one for the Gampen hut and the other for the Malga delle Odle).

In summer

• Hiking - Several alpine huts and refuges within walking distance.
• Climb
• Mountainbike

In winter

• Cross country skiing
• Tobogganing

At the table

Safety

Other projects

• Wikipedia contains an entry concerning Val di Funes
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