Valdidentro includes four villages, Premadio, Pedenosso, Isolaccia and Semogo, located between 1250 and 1500 metres above sea level along the road that leads from Bormio to Livigno. The permanently snow capped Cima Piazzi Glacier dominates over Valdidentro, contrasting with the clear blue sky and underlying centuries-old green woods with its pine and fir trees framing the Stelvio National Park. The Valdidentro has a full history; it was crossed by the Imperial Way, which linked the Dukedom of Milan and the Republic of Venice to Engadine and the North of the Alps. The valley has also deep-seated traditions deriving from a millenary population who cultivated with the utmost respect the culture belonging to their mountains.
The Valdidentro valleys has an abundance of water supplied by rivers, streams, cascades, alpine lakes and artificial basins in Cancano. The water from Cancano furnishes the hydro-electric network system for the production of energy for Milan and the Lombardy Region.
Valdidentro is characterized by a geological structure of 9 hot spring water sources that gush from living rock at a steady temperature of 40°C found at the Baths of Bagni Vecchi. These Baths were already mentioned by Pliny and Cassiodoro. The Fonte Pliniana (Pliny Source), the Bagni Romani (Roman Baths) and the Sweating Grotto have been dedicated to them.
Valdidentro stands for a holiday in the sign of tranquillity, where, within short distance it is also possible to enjoy the tourist and sports facilities available including the facilities provided by Alta Valtellina, Bormio, Livigno, Santa Caterina and Stelvio. Stelvio is the most important summer skiing training ground in the World.
People have lived in this vast territory since the eleventh century as it was the passage between Bormio and Livigno, between Bormio and Engadine, it was the last bulwark between the South and the North of the Alps. This territory expanded due to the pastoral-agricultural economy typical of alpine tradition marked by the rhythm of summer mountain grazing - village, alpine pastures, summer pasturing in the mountains - in search of grass, the only food available for cattle, and also thanks to the commercial trade between the Dukedom of Milan and the Republic of Venice with the German Empire.
The territory has maintained the signs of the past: wooden and stone houses with attached stable, these being the ordinary farmers' houses; then there were the wooden summer mountain huts on the outskirts of the woods and surrounded by alpine pastures; the further up the mountain beyond the woods we have stone huts surrounded by summer pasture completely without plant life. Even today there is evidence of the cultural traditions of the mountain.
We can also see the landmarks of commercial and military communications used in those days: the Pedenosso Church that stands isolated on a rock like a fortress and further up we find the Fraele Towers located on the narrow passage way, overlooking Valdidentro and leading to San Giacomo Valley.
Valdidentro - a short distance from Bormio and Livigno
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