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St. Valentin auf der Haide ( it, San Valentino alla Muta) is a village in 
South Tyrol
it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol
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in the parish of Graun im Vinschgau
Graun im Vinschgau (; it, Curon Venosta ; rm, La Carun) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northwest of Bolzano, on the border with Austria and Switzerland.
Geography
At 1 January 20 ...
. The village on the Reschen Pass
Reschen Pass (german: Reschenpass, ; it, Passo di Resia ) is a mountain pass across the main chain of the Alps, connecting the Upper Inn Valley in the northwest with the Vinschgau region in the southeast. Since 1919, the border between South Tyr ...
lies at a height of 1,472 metres between the Haidersee
The Haidersee is a lake in South Tyrol, Italy, which belongs to the municipality of Graun im Vinschgau
Graun im Vinschgau (; it, Curon Venosta ; rm, La Carun) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, loc ...
and Reschensee
Reschensee (; ; Italian: ''Lago di Resia'' ) or Lake Reschen is an artificial lake in the western portion of South Tyrol, Italy, approximately south of the Reschen Pass, which forms the border with Austria, and east of the mountain ridge for ...
on the scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. Talus deposits typically ha ...
slope of the Mals Heath
The Mals Heath (german: Malser Haide) is located in South Tyrol, Italy; it is one of the largest ancient landslides and one of the most remarkable landscape features in the Alps. It is located in the Upper Vinschgau where a broad pass (the Reschen ...
. St. Valentin auf der Haide has about 800 inhabitants who predominantly earn a living from summer and winter tourism.
St. Valentin also has a ski resort, Haideralm, which is part of the ''Skiparadies Reschenpass''. Since 1965 St. Valentin has been twinned with the municipal district of Ãœberlingen
Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...
in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
, Germany.
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* {{Authority control Frazioni of South Tyrol