THE MOUNTAINS

 

The lovers of the mountain will find an oasis of peace n Valsugana.  The present  undisputed reign of deer and chamois which seasonally live together with hundreds of cows populating the huts scattered in the entire area, since less than a century ago was a marginal land. On these lands, appreciated  today for the peace and the about unspoiled nature, the armies of Italy and Austria have faced each other  during the First World War. The rests of the conflict are still visible as forts, war cemeteries and ruins of defensive buildings.

 

The plateaus of Celado, Malcesina, Musiera are the points of departure for excursions  of different levels and offer a landscape of a beauty beyond compare on the surrounding peaks until  Vette Feltrine and Massiccio of Grappa.  The Vezzena plateau is comfortably reachable from Calceranica, Bosentino and Vattaro or from Caldonazzo following a military track dating back from the Great War, The ‘Kaiserjägerweg’ called  also ‘Menadora’. This road, which follows hairpin bens offers  a beautiful view on the Valsugana and on the Caldonazzo and Levico lakes;  in some points it is tight and on a steep slope, built sheer on the rock.

 

The plateau is an expanse of meadows and woods freckled by huts which gently slopes down towards the plateau of Asiago.  From Vetriolo Terme you can reach the area of Panarotta. From here you dominate the Dolomites of Brenta, the Valsugana and the lakes of Caldonazzo and Levico. In winter the area changes into a skiing resort with 18km of slopes. The Passo Brocon links the territory first with the valley of Vanoi and then with the valley of Primiero, while the Passo Manghen is the access to reach the valley of Fiemme.

 

From the peak of Passo Brocon stretch several paths, among which the most known is the ‘Trodo dei fiori’, a quite easy itinerary which offers the chance to admire the Lagorai, the Pale di S.Martino and the Vette Feltrine. Starting always from the path it is possible to reach the nature and trekking centre of Malga Valarica. From the peak of Passo Manghen, instead, you can dominate the Valtrigona, the only one oasis of WWF in Trentino; and from the road that leads to the path it is possible to admire the red color of the rocks of porphyry in Lagorai. It is one of the most attractive but less known group of the eastern Alps, characterized by a wild nature which however hides evidences of a past exploitation from the man through pastoral activities and in more recent years from the ‘canòpi’, the German miners, when they worked in the mines of fluorite, quartz and silver.