Tarres

The Tarres Mountain Pasture stretches above the eponymous village in the Val Venosta and also offers something for archers

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Tarres lies on the southern edge of the Val Venosta orchards below the Monte Tramontana, which is protected in the Stelvio National Park.
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The main village of the municipality is clearly visible from Tarres, the hamlet is located 160 m higher than Laces village in the valley basin.
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The Church of St. Karpophorus in Tarres (Tarsch), which Emperor Frederick gave to the Teutonic Knights around 1214 AD, has the most beautiful Romanesque bell tower in South Tyrol.
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Cosy village square at the fountain: It forms the centre of Tarres, around the roads are called Via della Fontana (Fountain Road), Via della Chiesa (Church Road), Via della Cappella (Chapel Road).
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The parish church is dedicated to St. Michael: The Romanesque frescoes and the altar decorations from several stylistic periods are worth seeing.
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At the edge of the village, the first signpost is visible, which leads mountain bikers to the Tarres Hut: Here the route now starts upwards.
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The Tarres Mountain Pasture with its hut is a hiking destination, starting point for mountain tours and has its own chairlift and archery course.
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View from the Latschanderwaal on the Adige River near Laces and Tarres, where the Val Venosta Cycle Path takes you all the way to Merano.
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The wide municipality of Laces with its districts and the entrance to the Val Martello in the Stelvio National Park are clearly visible here.
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A chapel on the way from Castelbello to Tarres: Until a few years ago, the Malga Tarres was a skiing area with 11 km of slopes in winter.
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Tarres along the edge of the forest of the Monte Tramontana is a characteristic Val Venosta village with valuable sights such as the Parish Church of St. Michael, the Romanesque St. Karpophorus Church and the St. Medardus Church. This chapel is locally simply called "Sommadorn" and stands on an old spring sanctuary. It was highly valued as one of the healing springs in South Tyrol, in this case against fever, and ran underground from the altar through the nave of the church until it was damaged and dried up during the tunnel construction for Lake Gioveretto in the Val Martello.

Above Tarres, a few minutes away by car, lies the valley station of the Malga Tarres Chairlift. The alpine pasture is the starting point for hikes that show you natural places like the Tarres Jochwaal, which once connected the Val d'Ultimo with the Val Venosta, and the surrounding heights in all their beauty. Experienced alpinists can also climb Mt. Orecchia di Lepre starting from the alpine pasture, a glaciated giant in the Stelvio National Park at the transition to the Ultimo Valley.

But the adventure doesn't only start at the Tarres Mountain Hut, but already at the valley station. The Schlegl-Almrausch 3D Archery Course starts there consisting of two sections: one at the valley station, the other at the mountain station. They can also be done separately. And in winter? Horse riding, ice skating, snowshoe hiking and tobogganing are on the programme: Tarres (Tarsch) has its own floodlit sledge run down to the valley station of the Malga Tarres Chairlift.

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