Valle Aurina

The Valle Aurina is one of the most unspoilt areas of South Tyrol, with its woodcarving, herbalism and family destinations.

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The Speikboden Skiing Area above Campo Tures and Lutago awaits you with 39 km of wonderful pistes and is part of the SkiWorld Valle Aurina.
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A little further into the valley, near Cadipietra, lies the second ski area of the SkiWorld: Klausberg, which offers an Alpine Coaster in summer.
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The valley is also prepared for cross-country skiing and snowshoe tours - the hike to the Marxegger Hut near Rio Bianco is highly recommended.
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video : Hike to Mt. Giogo Lungo
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Summer view on the Valle Aurina from the path to the Sasso Nero Hut, the highest South Tyrolean refuge at about 3,000 m a.s.l.
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Lutago is the first village in the Valle Aurina between Campo Tures and Predoi: Rafting and horse trekking are the order of the day here.
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Lutago is also home to the Maranatha Nativity Museum (Krippenmuseum), which you can visit all year round, here the artist’s studio.
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The Valle Aurina valley is known for its farms with dairy farming on the slopes and the carving art of the mask carvers and sculptors.
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Cadipietra is worth a visit: the Museum in the Granary, a Mining Museum, offers a glimpse into the history of the village and the valley.
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Pure idyll: One of the most beautiful churches in South Tyrol can be found in San Giovanni in Valle Aurina with its Mineral Museum.
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June, when the sulphur anemones bloom on the Speikboden, with the three-thousand-metre peaks of the main Zillertal Ridge rising behind.
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Lake Chiusetta lies at 2,160 m a.s.l. in the Durreck Group (High Tauern) - it is just one of countless destinations for tours in the Valle Aurina.
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The second part of the Valli di Tures and Aurina - the Valle Aurina - begins after Campo Tures. It stretches to the end of the valley near Casere and its Holy Spirit Church. A large part of it covers the municipality of Valle Aurina, which extends in picture-postcard idyll along the Valle Aurina road. The small villages rise against the backdrop of the snow-capped three-thousand-metre peaks of the Zillertal Alps, the slopes are dotted with farms that live mainly from cattle and dairy farming, and root masks and wooden statues line the paths.

Woodcarving is widespread here, for which roots are often used in this area. Sculpture gardens and outdoor artworks tell of this, but also the Maranatha Nativity Museum. It is located in Lutago, followed down the valley by three more unique museums: the private Kirchler Mineral Museum, which displays one of the most impressive mineral collections in the Eastern Alps, and two of the South Tyrol Museums of Mining, namely the Mining Museum in the Grain Store in Cadipietra and the Predoi Show Mine with the Climate Gallery a bit outside the municipality.

The municipality of Valle Aurina lies in the heart of the Vedrette di Ries-Aurina Nature Park. In addition to mountain tours such as those on Mt. Sasso Nero and Monte Lovello, rafting, horseback riding and Kneipp cures are popular activities. In between, the age-old traditions that tell of the long history of the valley come alive again and again, such as the Pitschele Singing in November and the Goasslschnöllen, the traditional Whip Cracking, at the village festivals. In winter, the two ski areas of the SkiWorld Valle Aurina form a popular spot: Speikboden and Klausberg, which then closes its Family Park and Alpine Coaster and leaves the terrain to skiers and snowboarders.

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