Stelvio National Park
The Stelvio National Park is the biggest and oldes nature park in Italy. It was founded in 1935 to conservate the beauties of the Ortler-Cevedale massif and to develope a soft tourism in the valleys of the regions Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige. The Park with an area of more than 135.000 hectare is vast and varied: it starts at an altitude of 600 meters and stretches up to the Ortler glacier on a level of 3.900 meters.
Inbetween those two extremes you find characteristic landscapes with meadown, woods, alms, rivers and lakes with wonderful examples of alpine Flora. The vegetation between 1.000 and 2.000 meters is dominated by forests of conifers. The most seen sort of trees (mainly in Val di Rabbi on the Trentino side of the park) is surely spruce often accompanied by silver firs.
Queste formazioni di alberi risalgono i versanti diradandosi progressivamente a favore di una maggior presenza di larice e pino cembro.
In altitudes of more than 2.800 meters you find rocks, gravel slopes, eternal snow and glaciers.
The Stelvio National Park is hosting a variety of animal species. The park is populated by the four most important horned species of the Alps: roes, deers, ibexes and chamoirs. Furthermore you find birds of prey like golden eagle, vultures, numerous types of woodpeckers and many squirrels, hares and foxes.
Day-to-day-life of humans and animals takes place in this territory. Tourism, farming and breeding are part of the varied economy of the Alp region.
Lakes and Rivers
Adamello Park
Stelvio National Park
Montisola
Thermal Spa
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