St. Kassian
| San Ćiascian - St. Kassian | |||
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| Italian name : San Cassiano | |||
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| St. Kassian village church | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Trentino-South Tyrol | ||
| province | South Tyrol (BZ) | ||
| local community | Abbey (South Tyrol) | ||
| Coordinates | 46 ° 34 ' N , 11 ° 56' E | ||
| height | 1537 m slm | ||
| Residents | 859 (2013) | ||
| patron | Kassian | ||
| Church day | 13 August | ||
| Faction leader | Thomas Pescollderungg | ||
| Telephone code | 0473 | CAP | 39036 |
St. Kassian ( Ladin San Ćiascian , Italian San Cassiano ) is a place in the municipality of Abtei ( Badia ) in South Tyrol and Ladinia . St. Kassian lies at the foot of the imposing rock faces of Piz Cunturines , Piz Lavarela , Settsass and Lagazuoi .
The 1537 m high in the south-eastern side branch of the rear Val Badia located place since the advent of tourism in the 1960s, both in summer and winter as part of the holiday region Alta Badia , a popular holiday destination. For around 2/3 of the almost exclusively Ladin-speaking population, tourism has since been the main source of income.
The town with approx. 850 inhabitants has 127 hotels and guest houses with a total of 4,044 beds.
In St. Kassian there is the St. Hubertus restaurant (head chef Norbert Niederkofler ), the first and so far only restaurant in South Tyrol with three stars in the Michelin Guide . The highest rating was first published in the Guide Michelin Italia 2018 (published in November 2017).
history
Before St. Kassian was permanently settled, the area was used exclusively as pasture for cattle (= armenc), which gave rise to the name Armuntarora-Armentarola (district of St. Kassian in the direction of the Valparola Pass ).
St. Kassian finally got its name from Saint Kassian , to whom the church in the village is consecrated.
In 1296 the names of individual farms in St. Kassian were mentioned for the first time.
Worth seeing
- Church of St. Kassian: built in 1782, main altar with a painting by the artist Carl Henrici from Silesia , on which the martyrdom of St. Kassian is depicted.
- Museum Ladin Ursus ladinicus : The Ladin Museum keeps important testimonies from the history, culture and tradition of the Val Badia. The spectacular find of prehistoric skeletons of a cave bear on September 23, 1987 by the hotelier Willy Costamoling caused a sensation. The age of the remains of this bear species, found in a cave of the Cunturines, is estimated by scientists to be over 9,000 years. Some researchers deduced from the findings that the various ice ages in the Alps could have occurred at shorter intervals than previously assumed.
Web links
- Self-administration St. Kassian on the homepage of the municipality Abtei