Malles Venosta

The Piana di Malles (Malser Haide), the historic Tarces Hill and the venerable Monte Maria Monastery are located in South Tyrol’s second-largest municipality

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The market town of Malles with its fertile Piana di Malles (Malser Heide) used to be considered the granary of Tyrol in the past: Today, fruit farming and dairy farming play the main role in the agricultural sector.
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The five towers of Malles rise up in the centre of the market town: four of them are church towers, plus the keep of Fröhlichsburg castle.
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There is almost not enough room for everything: on the far left, the last corner of the town walls of Glorenza can be seen from the Val Venosta High Route, and the white Monte Maria Monastery near Malles is enthroned on the far right.
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The museum and crypt of Monte Maria above Burgusio, the highest Benedictine abbey in Europe, can be visited.
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A legend tells of a town on the historic Tarces Hill: Archaeological finds confirm a larger settlement in prehistoric times.
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The Slingia Alp (Alp Pianbell), surrounded by the Sesvenna Group: You can hike over the Slingia Pass all the way to the Swiss Uina Gorge.
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The Mazia Valley in the Ötztal Alps also offers impressive landscapes: Mazia itself is a certified “mountaineering village”.
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Another wonderful tour leads from the Glieshof farm in the Mazia Valley to the Malga Upialm and then on to the idyllic Upisee lake at about 2,550 m a.s.l.
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View from the Stelvio Pass towards the glaciated, 3,738 m high giant of Mt. Palla Bianca, the highest point in the municipality of Malles: the mountain was first conquered in 1846.
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The Val Venosta Cycle Path, here near Laudes, is part of the Via Claudia Augusta Cycle Route and continues near Merano as the Adige Cycle Path to Bolzano.
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Every year on October 16, the traditional Gollimarkt takes place in Malles - after that, the first snow does not take long to fall.
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Winter landscape: View from Pramajur across the Alta Val Venosta near Malles, where the SportWell indoor swimming pool offers relaxation in warm water.
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Malles has its own family-friendly skiing area: Mt. Watles awaits you with 18 km of downhill runs and 15 km of cross-country skiing tracks all the way to Slingia.
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At the edge of the small ski area, a winter hiking trail leads to the top of Piz Watles, the chairlift brings you back comfortably.
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The Nordic Cross-Country Ski Centre in Slingia, part of the Zwei Länder Skiarena (Two Countries Ski Arena), also hosts national and international competitions.
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In Alta Val Venosta, where the wind blows across the wide expanses of the Piana di Malles and the road ascends towards Lake Resia, lies the sunny municipality of Malles Venosta with its numerous villages. It is a market town, where five towers still rise in the centre today. Once there were seven, two of them were destroyed in the French Wars. The rocky hill "Tartscher Bichl" near Tarces, where a deer horn point and a Celtic sword were found, tells of even older times. Today it is a popular recreation area with an enchanting little church, S. Vito.

The cultural region of Malles extends from the valley floor to the right and left into its side valleys such as the Val di Mazia, the Valle di Slingia and the Valle di Piavenna. Then the slopes steeply rise: The municipal area reaches far into the Ötztal Alps and into the Val Senales Ridge, where the highest points of the municipality are located, Mt. Palla Bianca (3,738 m a.s.l.) and the Innere Quellspitze (3,516 m a.s.l.). The small hamlets such as Clusio, Planol, Ultimo and Alsago as well as Laudes at the turnoff towards the Val Müstair and Switzerland also belong to the municipality. They make Malles so spacious and interesting if you are interested in culture and nature. For public transport, Malles is an important hub due to the final station of the Val Venosta Railway and the bus connections to Switzerland and North Tyrol in Austria.

In the warmer season, the Oberwaalweg path is particularly suitable for hikes and walks, but the mountain world near Salonetto and around the "mountaineering village" of Mazia will also delight alpine lovers. The pretty village centres, the castles and the well-known Monte Maria Monastery above Burgusio stand for the cultural wealth of one of the most traditional settlement areas along the Via Claudia Augusta. Where in summer you can find the play lake at Mount Watles in the mountains high above Malles, in winter the ski slopes stretch. For cross-country skiers, the Slingia Valley offers its own Nordic Cross-Country Skiing Centre.

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