Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino

Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area
Monte Cimerlo in the Pale di San Martino
location	Pale di San Martino , Fiemme Valley Alps , Trentino , Italy
surface	191 km²
WDPA ID	5938
Geographical location	46 ° 16 '  N , 11 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 15 '43 "  N , 11 ° 48' 0"  E
Setup date	1967

The 19,100 hectare Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino in the east of the province of Trento , Italy includes the 2700 hectares of Paneveggio spruce forest in the north , part of the Pale di San Martino Dolomite massif in the south-east and part of the Lagorai porphyry chain in the west .

The nature park was founded in 1967 and is now divided into four zones of different degrees of protection ( total reserves , guided reserves, controlled reserves and special reserves). The seat of the nature park is in the Villa Welsperg in Tonadico with a lithothek (mineral collection), xylothek (wood and tree collection) and a herbarium for shrubs ( fruticoteca ). There are other visitor centers in San Martino di Castrozza , in Paneveggio by Lake Forte Buso and in Caoria in the Vanoi Valley (municipality of Canal San Bovo ).

The Paneveggio spruce forest, located at 1500 to 2000 m, is not only ecologically important, but is also known by violin makers for its hazel fibers, which are particularly suitable for violin making , and is therefore also called the violin forest ( Foresta dei violini ).

Worth seeing

• Venegia valley
• Canali valley
• Colbriccon Lakes
• Calaita lake
• Alm Miesnotta
• Fradusta and Travignolo glaciers in the Pale di San Martino
• the former imperial and royal military facility Paneveggio (can only be viewed from the outside)

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The park is accessed through Strada Statale 50 del Grappa e del Passo Rolle . Hospices were set up on both sides of Passo Rolle at an early stage . B. the Paneveggio Hospice (later Hotel Paneveggio, now Albergo La Bicocca) and the San Martino di Castrozza Hospice.

See also

• List of natural parks in Italy

Web links

Commons : Parco Naturale Paneveggio - Pale di San Martino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The nature park on Parks.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexandra Wauer: With her voice magic sound ... Paneveggio - A forest full of violins. (PDF; 160 KB) in LWF aktuell 60/2007. Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry, accessed on November 7, 2018 . 
2. ^ Adolf Ritter von Guttenberg: Growth and yield of the spruce in the high mountains (p. 67). Vienna, Deuticke, 1915.
3. ^ Albergo La Bicocca