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Val di Fassa - The worth seeing places in Val di Fassa in the Dolomites
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A MUSEUM FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
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museum for the third millennium.
Reflecting on identity and memory constitutes
one of the keys to this first part of the third
millennium, taken as it is between globalisation
and loss of identity, local closures and fundamentalist
impulses. Vigo di Fassa's Ladin Cultural Institute,
a reputable cultural institute which has been
working for a quarter of a century for the evaluation
of the language and culture of this ancient Dolomite
people, has welcomed the discussion and has given
a new exhibition home to its own collection of
Alpine ethnography. The museum is also linked
to the name of Milo Manara, an undisputed master
of the illustration of feminine beauty. On display
there are works chosen by the artist showing figures
from Fassan mythology which have been passed down
by word of mouth, like the bregostènes
and vivènes, the witches and elves. The
display features interactive, multimedia technology
which allows you, for example, to "try your
hand visually" at the various stages of an
agricultural operation, "take part in"
the complex rituals which used to surround Ladin
weddings and "share" in the often worrying
debauchery of the Fassan carnival and so on.
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| Worth
seeing places in Val di Fassa |
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district of Moena and the Alpe di Lusia, includes part
of the Paneveggio Nature Park, a protected
Dolomite mountain ecosystem area, which also has interesting
visitor centres and a reserve where in particular deer
numbers document the Alpine environment.
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The
Saint Barbara church.
The little church of S. Barbara; it was built by the
Valparola’s miners that worked the minerals extracted
form the Monte Pore.The Crucifixion painted on the outside
wall and the many paintings on the inside walls are
of particular historic and artistic value.
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first references to a church in Corvara, dedicated
to Saint Catherine, are to be found in documents dating
from 1347. The church in its present form was consecrated
on the 26th of August 1452 and was the subject of various
restoration projects, in 1864, 1910 and 1967. In this
church of more modest dimensions the light penetrates
through the windows and the panes to the choir and illuminates
an ambience featuring a multitude of Saints. Under a
certain light the Saints are brought to the fore, under
another they take on a different role, then once more
to be brought to the fore.
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In 1987 a cave full of fossils was found in
the zone of Conturines, (at 2800 m). The fossils
were the skull, bones and teeth belonging to a bear. |
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Lagazuoi was
a theatre of operations during the 1st World War and
the Italian Alpine troops were lined up against the
Austrians troops. The
Italian positions on the ledges underneath the peak
of the mountain were in effect for two years a key point
of the first order on the Dolomite front. |
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