Val Gardena
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Val Gardena is a valley in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, Northern Italy. It is best known as a tourist skiing, rock climbing, and woodcarving area.
The Stevia range above Val Gardena
Accidents like the one depicted were frequent among the farmers collecting timber in the woods during harsh winters in Val Gardena.
Woodcarving in Val Gardena. Around 1900 when carving of statues of Catholic saints was at its bloom.
Carved gallant genre scene in Swiss Pine with figurines from Val Gardena 18th century
Sëlva
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Sëlva is a comune and a village in the Val Gardena in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located about 30 kilometres east of the city of Bolzano. The Ladin and Italian place names derive from the Latin word
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…are covered by pine woods. The favoured cultivations are barley, rye, potatoes, flax, buckwheat. The three municipalities in Val Gardena are Urtijëi, Sëlva, and Santa Cristina; they were served by the Val Gardena Railway from 1916 until 1960. The first document about Val Gardena dates back to 993/94–1005…
View of Sëlva
Upper terminus of the Dantercëpies aerial cableway in summer after an early snowfall.
The farmhouse Piciulëi in Sëlva Gherdëina. Southern aspect.