Spring in the Val Gardena

Image gallery: Spring

• Stunning! The winter hiking path on the Rasciesa High Alp can still be walked in March if the temperatures are low enough.
  Foto: Giacomo Roccabruna, © Peer
• The Val Gardena skiing area with its 115 km of slopes and the connection to the Alpe di Siusi, however, offers endless ski fun until Easter.
  Foto: EMS, © Peer
• On the famous Seceda ski slope, every year in spring there is the longest giant slalom in the Dolomites: the Gardenissima.
  Foto: EMS, © Peer
• The crocus blossom in the Vallunga valley with its myriad of white and purple blossoms gives a foretaste to the spring season.
  Foto: EMS, © Peer
• One of the oldest walking trails in the valley, the Via Crucis, leads you beneath the rock faces of Mt. Stevia into the Vallunga valley.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• Also the Val Gardena Railway Trail, connecting the villages of Ortisei and Santa Cristina, invites to a walk or a cycle tour.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• At altitudes of 1,600 - 2,000 m a.s.l., above the villages of the Val Gardena valley, wide alpine pastures and high plateaus stretch.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• A popular destination: above Ponte Gardena there’s Castel Trostburg with its South Tyrolean Castles Museum, which reopens in April.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• Also the Museum Gherdëina in Ortisei invites to a visit: it shows old wooden toys, archaeological findings and more.
  Foto: EMS, © Peer
• The St. James Church can be found in the hamlet of San Giacomo (St. James), along the old Troi Paiàn high-altitude path - here in April.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• It is the mother church as well as the oldest church of the Val Gardena valley and was mentioned for the first time in 1283.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• Popular starting points for hang-gliders and paragliders in the valley are Mt. Seceda and the Rasciesa High Alp.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• Between March and May, also the wonderful landscape of the Puez-Odle Nature Park, founded in 1978, comes to life again.
  Foto: AT, © Peer
• At the end of May the funicular from Ortisei to the Alpe di Siusi already starts into the summer season.
  Foto: AT, © Peer