S. Martino di Castrozza, Primiero e Vanoi
- Azienda per il turismo S. Martino di Castrozza, Primiero e Vanoi
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Via Passo Rolle, 165
38058 San Martino di Castrozza,
Italy
Tel +39 (0439) 768867
Fax: +39 (0439) 768814
E-Mail info@sanmartino.com
- www.sanmartino.com
The Primiero and Vanoi valleys lie in the eastern part of Trentino, on the borders of Veneto. The landscape of Valle di Primiero presents a large basin in which cultivated fields, extensive pastures, dense woods and waterways flowing from the little side valleys, form the background to the small human settlements which conserve the atmosphere of alpine villages of long ago in their historical centers. The valley is scoured by the Cismon torrent which rises in Passo Rolle, the pass connecting Primiero with Valle di Fiemme and which has always been of great strategic importance as a communication route. The valley is bounded to the east by the Pale di San Martino Group, defined by the geographer Cesare Battisti as "the superb amphitheatre of the Dolomite Alps", lying in the Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Nature Park. Valle del Vanoi, situated to the west of Val Primiero, nestles between the western part of the Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Nature Park and Lagorai, an area of totally unspoiled nature which is more or less unique in Trentino. Centuries old forests cover the mountain slopes with green pastures and alpine lakes and rock peaks rising dramatically above.