Patron saint festival In 312 days
Feast of San Genesio
📅 Every year, on 25 August
On 25 August La Valle, a municipality of 1,299 inhabitants in the province of Bolzano, celebrates its patron San Genesio.
At La Valle the hour is read off the mountains: two peaks of the Sasso di Santa Croce are called Cima Nove and Cima Dieci, Nine Peak and Ten Peak, because the sun passes over them at those hours, and together they make a natural sundial. The village is Ladin: almost everyone has Ladin as a first language. On the Armentara meadows, from the third century before Christ, wooden huts were built for hay, with a technique that stayed the same for thousands of years.
The German name, Wengen, is a translation of the Ladin Ciamps, the fields. In 1296 the rent-roll of the monastery of Sonnenburg already listed the farms of the valley one by one. The chapel of Saint Barbara, patron of miners, is of 1490: iron and silver were dug here. In 1930 the comune was merged into San Martino in Badia, and became autonomous again only in 1965.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.