Our guided excursions in Val di Sole
trekkings and walks included:

Those who prefer approaching nature on tiptoe will find two unique protected areas in Val di Sole: Adamello-Brenta Natural Park and Stelvio National Park.
Adamello-Brenta Natural Park is the broadest protected area in Trentino, known also for being the only alpine area where lives the bear that became the symbol of it too. In the west the Park includes the Trentinian part of Adamello-Presanella massif, water realm: great glaciers, rushing streams, wonderful waterfalls, tens of enchanting lakes. In the east embraces the Brenta Dolomites: a fairytale series of peaks, turrets and enormous overhanging cliffs. On these mountains the range of wildlife is magnificent: chamois, deers, venisons, eagles, ibexes, foxes, badgers, martens, black grouse, capercaillies, woodchucks and white partridges are just a few species who live here.
Stelvio National Park is the largest protected area in the Alpin arch and it goes along the Ortles-Cevedale massif. It can be accessed from Val di Pejo and Rabbi, two impressive and pictoresque lateral valleys that contain its rural roots. Here are the Pejo and Rabbi hot springs, known for its waters rich in carbon dioxide and iron. Full of tree varities, flowers and minerals, the Park preserves animal species like stoats, golden eagles and lammergeiers, Alpine mighty vulture. There is plenty of thematic paths and day and night-time excursions in which it is possible to join and not miss out.

Art in Val di Sole is not linked just to the past. Handcrafting is indeed still thriving: carpenters realise tailor-made furniture in a traditional and modern style, vintage furniture restorers, woodcarvers together with pottery handcrafters (that once made the beautiful tiled stoves) and blacksmiths, real artists, reveal art in antique craftsmanship that still survives in village’s workshops.

Simple but rich in taste are Val di Sole and Trentino’s typical products: the apples, grown in lower Val di Sole, which boast Melinda logo; little berries like blackcurrant, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, tasty and rich in vitamins; meat and cuts, among which speck, salami, the “luganeghe” and bacon stand out; honey, produced in small quantities, rich and nutritious, that fits perfectly with sweet and savory foods; dairy products, starting from the excellent butter, to ricotta and cheeses: the “Casolet della Val di Sole”, and the aged homegrown, Trentingrana.
Val di Sole cuisine, wholesome but full of grandma’s secrets, is a typically mountainous gastronomy, based on milk and its derivates, that still have all the scents and aromas of hay, grass and high-mountain pure air. Since bushmeat profuses, it is often prepared with little berries and aromatic herbs and polenta as a side dish. It is a cuisine that has south-tyrolean influences, consider for example the smoked carrè with sauerkraut or the pork knuckle. You cannot miss the strangolapreti, potato gnocchi, spätzle, canederli, tortei and torta di patate, barley soup. Fish also has a place in traditional Val di Sole gastronomy, thanks to the trout from Noce stream and to the charr from mountain lakes. Among the desserts we recommend the “torta de fregoloti”, carrot cake, Linzer cake and the evergreen Strudel.