The Val Vestino belonged to Trento for more than a thousand years: taken by the Lombards into the Judicaria Summa Laganensis, drawn under Carolingian rule into the orbit of Trento, and from 1189 to 1826 a fief of the counts of Lodrone, vassals of the prince-bishops and therefore subjects of the Habsburgs. Turano housed the general council of the valley, where the six communities sat. A frontier between the empire and Venice, and later between the empire and the Kingdom of Italy, the valley lived on border disputes and smuggling, and became Italian only in 1919, with the treaty of Saint-Germain.
Today's municipality is an amalgamation: between 1928 and 1931 Turano absorbed the other villages and took the name Valvestino, and in 1934 it was detached from the province of Trento and given to Brescia. Much more than the memory of Austria remains: the municipality is still under the tavolare land-registry system and answers to the court of Rovereto, and its parishes moved from Trento to Brescia only in 1964. In 1962 the Ponte Cola dam formed Lake Valvestino, whose northern part lies within the municipal boundary.
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