Santa Maria Antica Church Madonna Di Campiglio Adamello Brenta

Madonna di Campiglio Canalone Miramonti: a worldwide ski run! 8 Our Lady of Europe 10 Val Rendena 8 lanned by the alpinist Bruno Detassis, the “Lord of Brenta” and also the director of the first entioned in parchments and old maps since ancient times, Madonna di Campiglio has an history deeply rooted in a mysterious past. At the beginning it was a border zone al Rendena, which stretches from Ma- he church of Our Lady of Europe, inaugurated on andM a place along an important transit way through the Alps; the legend tells that two Emperors passes through it: Carlo Magno, who gave his name to the Pass, and then Federico V skiP school in Madonna di Campiglio in 1940, Canalone Miramonti is a legend of ski. It is a chal- AugustT 5, 2004 expresses the faith of the community donna di Campiglio to Villa, is known as the lenging and technical piste and in 1967 the first World Cup ski race in Italy took place here: on Barbarossa. “Green Valley” because of the intense green of of Campiglio and represents the history of the resort The documents cited “Santa Maria di Campei” in the end of the twelfth century (1188) when a certain Raimondo built an hospice-monastery, with a little church dedicated to Mary, the through the paintings of the artist Daniela Casoni, the nature in which it is immersed. Old-growth podium the French triple Perillat, Jauffret, Lacroix. On this ski run, many World Cup and Euro- to give a place to stay to foreigners and pilgrims. forests and woodlands descend the slopes and commissioned by don Ernesto Villa. From the legen- Then, this hospice-monastery became the property of the Trento Cathedral till 1515, and then it became gradually less important. pean Cup races took place, and also several editions of the 3Tre competition, the famous event dary transit of Carlo Magno ahead, the spiritual roots brush up to the quaint alpine towns and villages born in 1948 and that in December 2013 will have its 60th birthday in Campiglio, with two After three centuries of decline, in 1868 it was bought by the entrepreneur Giovanni Battista Righi of Strembo, who built the first hotel of Madonna in the place of the crumbling with their hidden treasures of art and history: of Europe became close to the popular devotion. buildings and the old hospice: the “ Campiglio alpine resort in Trentino”, inaugurated on June 1, 1875. It was a summer resort because the Madonna di Campiglio of that time took men’s downhill races. On Canalone Miramonti, Ingemar Stenmark, the best skier of all times, Inside the church you can admire the picture of the medieval churches with frescos, dating back won 8 races (5 special slaloms and 3 giant slaloms) and the best Italian skier Alberto Tomba won the Kurort (the summer hill station) as an example. to the second half of the 15th and first half of Madonna of Europe in blue, the color of Mary, but here in 1987, 1988 and 1995. also of the old country. Near the Madonna, there are In 1872 the members of SAT (Trentino mountain association) gathered in the Righi alpine resort , founding the society in Madonna di Campiglio. Some years later, Righi built at his the 16th centuries, by the Baschenis, travelling The slope starts at 1725 m and arrives at 1545 m. It is 550 m long, with a descent of 180 m, a painters from Averara, in the province of the patrons of Europe: Benedetto da Norcia, Brigida expense the road that connects the resort to Pinzolo, considered one of the most beautiful roads of the Alps. medium gradient of 27% and a maximum gradient of 60%. di Svezia, Cirillo e Metodio, Teresa della Croce and In 1886 the alpine resort, after being destroyed by a great fire, was bought by Franz Josef Oesterreicher, owner of the Grand Hotel Trento, who changed the alpine resort in the first Bergamo; roadside shrines; museums featu- ring the customs and traditional crafts of the Caterina da Siena. In front of them there are the Eu- Hotel Des Alpes. Thanks to this forward-looking entrepreneur, Madonna di Campiglio became the summer resort of the Habsburg Court. ropean people addressed to Mary by Carlo Magno on The Princess Sissi of Bavaria stayed here for the first time in 1889 and she came back with the Emperor Francesco Giuseppe in 1894. They were used to walk in the woods, to dance Val Rendena area; historic town centers that preserve their ancient architecture; squares and 10 horseback and by San Vigilio, patron of Trentino. the waltzs in the evening and to meet their entourage and courtier, as Vittoria Adelaide Maria Luisa, daughter of Queen Vittoria and Empress of Germany, and the archduke Alberto In a painting, which is a copy of the original pain- d’Asburgo, who was very fond of Madonna di Campiglio. fountains that one happens upon when walking through the narrow streets of the towns; and ting of the Algeciras church in Gibraltar, the So Madonna di Campiglio became the very refined resort of the aristocracy and the rich Austrian and Central European bourgeoisie, projecting towards a successful tourist future. Virgin of Europe is depicted. On February 26, 1910, at the beginning of the winter tourism in the Alps, a group of “audacious” English skiers arrived in Campiglio. They went up to Monte Spinale with their skis landscapes of rare beauty in which nature and man’s handiwork come together as one. and made the first official downhill in order to test the skiing potentiality of Madonna di Campiglio. The attempt was very good. After four days, before leaving Madonna di Campi- glio, the English skiers declared: “If the Campiglio winter resort will grow, we’ll be the first to come and the last to leave”. For the first time Madonna di Campiglio imagines itself on 5 skis. Opening time: 10 am-5 pm, on The first lift, which reached “Cima Dosson” top on the Spinale mountain from Malga Campo, in Campo Carlo Magno, opened in 1935, inaugurating the years of the “Madonna Bianca” Saturaday and on Sunday (“White Madonna”) with the first ski races. In 1947 the Funivie Madonna di Campiglio lifts company was founded to promote skiing and the resort. Then it is recent history: fast changes, Guided visits on modern developments, a state-of the-art and wide ski area, that makes Madonna one of the most beautiful winter and summer tourist resort of the Alps. reservation Discovering the history, the art and the culture of Madonna di Campiglio. Info and reservation: + 39 0465 447501 [email protected] Adamello Brenta Nature Park adonna di Campiglio is surrounded by the Adamello Brenta Nature Park, the widest protected area of Trentino (620,5 km2), which includes two different geologicalM ad geo-morphological landscapes: the Adamello-Presanella mountains westward (with glaciers, rivers, waterfalls and lakes) and the Brenta Dolomi- tes eastward (with peaks and great rock towers). Between these two worlds there are several side valleys - Vallesinella, Val Genova, Val Nambrone are the most The Hofer theatre 5 famous – each one with its peculiar landscape. There are numerous species of animals: the brown bear, that was brought back in the protected area thanks to the project Life Ursus, chamois, deers, roe 3 he Salone Hofer, inside the Des Alpes hotel, takes the name from the deers, eagles, steinbocks, foxes, badgers, martens, grouses, marmots, white partridge and many other big and small animals. The flora includes more than 1.200 painterT Gottfried Hofer, coming from Bolzano, who painted the walls of the species, the trees are 25 millions and the paths net on foot is more than 700 km. great parlour inside, between 1897 and 1898. 4 Santa Maria Antica church 3 The work was commissioned to him in 1897 by Franz Joseph Osterreicher, who purchased the alpine resort of Madonna di Campiglio some years before and turned it into the Des Alpes hotel. It is a neo-Gothic Tyrolean mountain church in granite, inaugurated in August 1895. It was built near the previous church (founded in the end of the twelfth The most famous painting by Hofer is the canvas of the Madonna with century, and re-built in the last years of the fifteenth century), part of the old hospice and tore down by Franz Joseph Oesterreicher in those years to enlarge the some little shepherds on Spinale mountain, and also the portraits of Fran- The symbol of Madonna di Campiglio Hotel Des Alpes.The Austrian nobility and the Emperor Francesco Giuseppe himself offered the pulpit, the confessional, and the wooden planking of the choir cesco Giuseppe and Sissi, several flower, natural and mythological symbols place with the most popular Saints figures, and some colored windows. in liberty style. he brown bear, laying down on a stalk of the On one of these windows, there is the Apostle S. Bartolomeo, the other patron saint of this church, who holds the dagger of his martyrdom; on another one, The Salone Hofer is a cultural and historic asset of high value, officially reco- typicalT mountain flower called “ramponzolo”, is there is the figure of Carlo Magno. On the benches there are the names of the benefactors, written in Ghotic, and on the floor there is the tomb of Franz Joseph gnized by the Province of Trento in 2004. A big fire destroyed the building’s the symbol of Campiglio. The original drawing Oesterreicher (1848-1909) roof and wooden parts completely on December 31, 2008 (then rebuilt belongs to the paintings, realized by Gottfried In the Santa Maria Antica church, there are some important artistic elements: the old crucifix in Nordic style, dating back to the twelfth century, the triptych as the original ones), but it didn’t burn the paintings of Gottfried Hofer, Hofer, that decorate the Salone Hofer, the feast of the Madonna with Child and the Saints (S.

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