Valdaora

In Valdaora, both in summer and winter you can enjoy direct access to the Plan de Corones hiking and skiing area located above it

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Video : Cycling tip: Valdaora to Lake Braies
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View on the so-called Valdaora Basin with the different districts of the municipality of Valdaora and the Valdaora Reservoir along the road.
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Valdaora di Mezzo is the main village, a holiday resort with a summer resort feeling in the middle of the meadows of the Val Pusteria valley.
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Valdaora di Sotto is also one of the four districts, known for its open-air swimming pool, the railway station and the leisurely walks around it.
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The heated outdoor swimming pool opens in June for the summer season - a children’s playground and parties in the evening are part of it.
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In addition, there is Valdaora di Sopra with South Tyrol’s largest equestrian farm, the Valdaora Reservoir and the 3D archery course.
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Along this archery course, called Kron Arc Adventure, 28 plastic animals are hidden in the forest - who will be the best archer?
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The Valdaora Kids’ World is a freely accessible nature adventure park with climbing towers, tree houses and play courses near Valdaora di Sopra.
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The ideal place for hot summer days! Children can romp and play in the Valdaora Kids’ World and try out the longest slide in South Tyrol.
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The reservoir is located on the Rienza on the way to the neighbouring Monguelfo: in the 1950s, the valley bottoms were flooded for this purpose.
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Beautiful hikes take you to the mountain huts of Valdaora, including the Brusada Hut in the picture, an idyllic tavern offering South Tyrolean dishes.
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A little further away, you can reach the high alpine Fojedöra Hut in the middle of the mountains via the Slapadures gap from the Furcia Pass.
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The “Pusterbike” Cycle Path extends across the Val Pusteria: On the one hand you have Bressanone, on the other San Candido and East Tyrol.
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Winter impressions from Valdaora (Olang), the place you can discover on horseback at the Tolderhof riding stable in Valdaora di Sopra.
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View from Sorafurcia on the winter landscape in the valley: This fourth district of the municipality is located on the slope of Mt. Plan de Corones.
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The lifts connect Valdaora with the ski mountain Plan de Corones above it, the skiing area of superlatives and part of Dolomit Superski.
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The Plan de Corones offers everything a skier’s and snowboarder’s heart desires: You can try out about 120 kilometres of stunning pistes here.
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Valdaora di Sotto, one of the component localities, presents itself in a white blanket of snow: In summer, the public outdoor pool is located here.
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video : With train and bike through the Val Pusteria
video : LUMEN and AlpiNN on Mt. Plan de Corones

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The municipality of Valdaora extends in the valley basin in the heart of the Val Pusteria, just above the town of Brunico. It is framed by the peaks of Plan de Corones, Piz da Peres and Mt. Tre Dita, here between the mountain world of the Dolomites and the Anterselva Valley. The single villages of the municipality seem to merge into each other and are characteristically called Valdaora di Sopra (Upper Valdaora), Valdaora di Mezzo (Middle Valdaora) and Valdaora di Sotto (Lower Valdaora). Sorafurcia on the slope of the Plan de Corones is the highest district and home village of the TV presenter Markus Lanz.

Valdaora is ideally connected to the Val Pusteria Railway and to the cycle path network on the "Pusterbike" Cycle Path: It takes you all the way to San Candido or vice versa to Brunico, Fortezza and then to the Brennero Pass or Bolzano. The family destinations are all gathered between Valdaora di Mezzo and Valdaora di Sopra, where the Kids Area Panorama stretches along the slope towards the forest: 3D archery courses, a huge air cushion and a tubing park are part of it. A walk away is the well-known Tolderhof with its Haflingers and riding school, which also offers horseback rides. In the main village of Valdaora di Sopra you can also find the longest slide in South Tyrol in the Valdaora Kids' World in the forest.

In summer and winter, the Plan de Corones can be reached from Valdaora by the lifts: The hiking and skiing area has developed into a true excursion destination that is no longer limited to hikers and skiers. At the summit, cultural highlights such as Reinhold Messner's MMM Corones and the Museum of Mountain Photography, the AlpiNN Food Space & Restaurant with a fantastic view from the panorama windows, and the giant swing "Skyscraper" are enthroned. Even in winter months, the museums remain open, but then the pistes of the largest skiing area in South Tyrol extend all around. From the alpine pastures, sledge runs stretch down into the valley.

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