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The Non Valley |
The Non Valley paradoxically is not a valley, but an highland. The most extended valley in Trentino Region is in effect marked by a series of rough amphitheatres which, almost in concentric circles, extended from the lower altitudes to the higher ones, with a landscape characterized by orchards up to alpine vegetation, forests, grasslands and rocks in higher lands. This long and undulated highland engraved by watercourses which have excavated deep fissures (on the deeper one is built the Santa Giustina dam, forming the homonymous lake) is closed at north by the mountainous group "le Maddalene"; at south-west by the "Brenta Dolomites"; at east by the western subgroup of Anaunian mountains; at south by the Paganella Massif and by the Andalo Saddle.
The tips which mark the horizon aren't much elevated: mountain Luco is 2434 meters; Péller, the mountain that separates the town of Cles from the Sole Valley, is 2320mt; the Macaiòn, which dominates the Adige Valley from Merano to Bolzano is 1866mt; the Roen which has mild versants of forests and grasslands in the Non part and steep cliffs in the Adige slope, is 2116mt. The Paganella is 2124mt high, but the highest peaks are in the Brenta Dolomites Massif: "Cima Falkner" 2999mt, "Pietra Grande" 2937mt and so on. This series of terraces is visually marked by a feeling of sharp light and brightness. |