Valley Bryce Photo: Bryce Valley

Valley Bryce, which is part of the ski area of Alta Pusteria is located in the heart of the mountain world of the Dolomites. The local landscape is characterized by various manifestations of the processes of the caves: there are almost all kinds of this phenomenon, mines, crevices, cracks, wells and sinkholes. The latter are small depressions, which are usually formed of an Alpine lake.

Valley Bryce is a great place for lovers of active leisure – lessons like myself will find here not only the fans of Hiking and mountain Biking, but also hikers and climbers. Their efforts will be rewarded with breathtaking views of the peaks of the Dolomites. In winter you can find many cosy mountain huts and snow-covered slopes and trails for cross-country skiing.

Over the past few centuries on the territory of the Bryce valley was built several churches and temples, and today attracts the attention of tourists. Perhaps one of the most famous is the chapel on the Bryce lake, built in the early years of the 20th century and consecrated in 1904, the year. This chapel was visited by many famous people – for example, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. In the years of the genocide found refuge here many prisoners – Hitler ordered the transfer of known political prisoners from the concentration camp in Dachau on the lake Bryce. It was here that the Nazis were executed by 136 people.

Other noteworthy churches of the valley Bryce built in 1335, the year the Church of San Vito with neo-Gothic altar and the Church in Ferrara di Bryce, erected in 1735, the year and famous for its frescoes.

Inseparable from the valley are its healing springs. The history of their use goes back into antiquity. But it is known that, in 1490, the year a simple but very ambitious worker from a local sawmill appealed to the lords Garcia request to allow him to build on the so-called "reindeer keys" a building for the care and treatment of the sick and suffering. The permission was granted, and a year later the Princess Paula Garcia first visited Spa complex, where he healed his aching limbs. For 40 years, from 1830 to 1870-th years – Spa in the valley Bryce is visited by over a thousand people, an incredible amount for that time!

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