Val Camonica
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Val Camonica is a valley in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy, Italy. It is the upper valley of the river Oglio, upstream from Lake Iseo.
Most of Val Camonica lies in the northern part of the province of Brescia.
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[edit] UNESCO Site
- Further information: Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
It is home to the greatest complex of rock drawings in Europe, with approximately 350,000 petroglyphs drawn by members of the Camunni tribe on hundreds of exposed rocks dating from about 8000 BC; cosmological, figurative, and cartographic motifs are featured, in some locations forming monumental hunting and ritual `scenes´. It includes also scenes of zoophilia.
The best-known drawings were first discovered in 1909 by Walter Laeng, a Brescian geographer. He announced his finding of two carvings on two boulders on the Pian del Greppe near Cemmo.
Since the 1950s, the imagery from thousands of rock surfaces has been `catalogued´, in a vast, on-going project of transcription and classification. In 1979, UNESCO included these samples to its World-wide Patrimony listing of rock art.
[edit] Tourism
The Val Camonica has different areas of tourism interest:
[edit] World Heritage Sites
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, site UNESCO n° 94
- Parco nazionale delle incisioni rupestri di Naquane in Capo di Ponte
- Parco archeologico nazionale dei massi di Cemmo
- Parco archeologico comunale di Seradina-Bedolina in Capo di Ponte
- Parco archeologico di Asinino-Anvòia in Ossimo
- Parco archeologico comunale di Luine in Darfo Boario Terme
- Parco archeologico comunale di Sellero
- Parco archeologico comunale di Sonico
- Riserva naturale Incisioni rupestri di Ceto, Cimbergo e Paspardo in Nadro
[edit] Medieval towns
[edit] Castles
- Castle of Breno
- Castle of Gorzone
- Castle of Cimbergo
- Castle of Lozio
- Castle of Mù
[edit] Roman city
[edit] Mountain excursion
- Paths of CAI in the Parco dell'Adamello
- Trench of first world war (so called Guerra Bianca in Adamello) in Vezza d'Oglio
[edit] Spa
- Boario Terme
- Angolo Terme
[edit] Museums and tematic parks
- Parco tematico Archeopark, Darfo Boario Terme
- Museo etnografico del ferro, delle arti e tradizioni popolari, Bienno
- Museo Civico Camuno, Breno
- Museo didattico di arte e vita preistorica, Capo di Ponte
- Museo didattico della riserva, Nadro
- Museo archeologico di Valle Camonica , Cividate Camuno
- Mostra museo Camillo Golgi, Corteno Golgi
- Museo etnografico, Ossimo
- Museo parrocchiale d'arte sacra, Ponte di Legno
- Museo della Guerra Bianca in Adamello, Temù
[edit] Santuaries and churches
- Santa Maria della neve in Pisogne
- Chiesa di Sant Antonio in Breno
- Santa Maria Annunziata in Bienno
- Santuario del Cristo Re in Bienno
- Santa Maria Assunta in Esine
- Monastero di San Salvatore in Capo di Ponte
- Oratorio dei Disciplini in Montecchio
- Pieve di San Siro in Cemmo
- Santuario della Via Crucis in Cerveno (Sacri Monti)
[edit] Winter sports
[edit] Photo gallery
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[edit] External links
- Parks of Valle Camonica on Wikimapia
- Itinera in Valcamonica (EN)
- Italian World Heritage Sites
- National museum and archaeological park with roman theatre and amphitheatre
- Valcamonica Rock Art, records and pictures
- EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art database, 50 Valcamonica rock art records
[edit] See also
[edit] Others projects
Media related to Val Camonica from the Wikimedia Commons.
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