Overview
Fully recognised worldwide among the 177 Unesco Geoparks, Adamello-Brenta Park is the largest protected area in Trentino, an ideal destination for slow and sustainable tourism. It covers over 620 square kilometres and has in the Rendena valley the point of division, and at the same time of contact, between the Brenta Dolomites and the Adamello-Brenta massif with its 3533 metres and extensive glaciers. In spite of its impressiveness, Mount Adamello is far from inaccessible and attracts not only sportsmen and women: in summer, it is a bustle of walkers and families with children who follow the well-marked paths of the Park, on foot or even taking the Val Rendena cycle-pedestrian path; in winter, it is popular with alpine skiers, and history enthusiasts also come here. The Adamello should also be remembered for the strategic role it played during the First World War, and the numerous trenches, emplacements, and tunnels have always been a popular attraction for thematic hiking. It is impossible not to emphasise the beauty of these breathtakingly natural places: rocks and glaciers, some eighty lakes and ponds, alternating between maples, rowan trees, hazelnuts and oaks, but also conifers such as larch, silver fir and spruce, which take on colours in autumn that alone would be worth the trip: the magic of foliage. And here chamois, deer, ibex and still lynxes, foxes, wolves and even the brown bear of the Alps, the symbol of the park, live together. And then the huts and cheese production that meet along the paths are scattered: the pasture still remains one of the traditional activities of these places.
