The Sole Valley (, or , ) is a valley in
Trentino
Trentino (), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento (; ; ), is an Autonomous province#Italy, autonomous province of Italy in the Northern Italy, country's far north. Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the Regions of Italy, region of Tren ...
, northern Italy.
Sole Valley applies to the Vermiglio Valley, the east-west aligned valley of the river
Noce and its sidevalleys, among which the
Peio Valley that heads to the
Ortler
Ortler (; ) is, at above sea level, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps outside the Bernina Range. It is the main peak of the Ortler Range. It is the highest point of the Southern Limestone Alps, of South Tyrol in Italy, of Tyrol overall ...
. The rest of the valley from
Ossana to
Mostizzolo is simply called Sole Valley.
Some of the towns in the valley are
Vermiglio,
Peio,
Dimaro,
Croviana and
Malè (the main town).
The Sole Valley heads to the
Tonale Pass
Tonale Pass () (el. 1883 m./6178 ft.) is a high mountain pass in northern Italy across the Rhaetian Alps, between Lombardy and Trentino.
It connects Valcamonica and Val di Sole. It is delimited by the Ortler Alps to the nort ...
, on the other side of the pass (and in the same direction as the Vermiglio Valley) begins the valley of the river
Oglio
The Oglio (; or ; , ) is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy. It is long.
In the hierarchy of the Po's tributaries, with its of length, it occupies the 2nd place per length (after the river Adda), while it is the 4th pe ...
which flows to
Edolo. In the northwest the region is bordered by the Ortler group with the national park ''
Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio'', in the southwest by the
Adamello group with the nature reserve ''Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta''. In the southern part of the region is the ski resort
Madonna di Campiglio
Madonna di Campiglio () is a village and a ski resort in northeast Italy. It is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Pinzolo. The village lies in the Val Rendena at an elevation of above sea level, and has approximately 1,000 inhabitants.
Th ...
, just over the
Campo Carlo Magno, a pass that leads to the
Rendena Valley.
In the east the region ends at
Mostizzolo, where the main valley bends south to
Non Valley
The Non Valley ( or ; Nones: ''Val de Nòn''; ; ) is a valley mainly in the Trentino. Moreover, the (also known as simply , in italian), a subregion, consists of three primarily German-speaking municipalities in the province of South Tyrol, Nor ...
before joining the valley of the
Adige
The Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the province of South Tyrol, near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows through most of northeastern Italy ...
north of
Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...
.
See also
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Malghetto Lakes
External links
Stock photos of Sole Valley
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Valleys of Trentino