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Spormaggiore is a Trentino municipality of about 1,300 inhabitants located at an altitude of 565 meters, in a connecting position...

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Spormaggiore is a Trentino municipality of about 1,300 inhabitants located at an altitude of 565 meters, in a connecting position between the Val di Non, with its vast apple orchards, and the Paganella plateau, the mountain that overlooks Lake Molveno and the Rotaliana plain. The municipal territory, covering just over 30 square kilometers, includes the main town and six hamlets, including Bèlfort, which owes its name to the ruins of the homonymous castle, and borders Molveno, Campodenno, Ton, and other municipalities in the area. Spormaggiore is now known above all for Belpark, the former Wildlife Park active since 1994, which hosts brown bears, wolves, lynx, and other alpine animals as part of the European Life Ursus project for the conservation of bears in the Alps, managed in collaboration with the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park. In addition to this, there is a historical heritage made up of medieval ruins, such as Castel Belfort, and religious buildings such as the two adjacent churches of San Vigilio and the Nativity of Mary, as well as a rural economy centered on apple cultivation, a distinctive feature of the Val di Non. Between walks in the apple orchards, visits to the bear park, and the trails that climb towards the Paganella, Spormaggiore offers a balanced synthesis of nature, history, and alpine tradition.

Ενημερώθηκε στις 21 Ιουλίου 2026

Spormaggiore 15°
Δευ 19° 14°
Τρι 20° 10°
Τετ 20° 12°
Πεμ 21° 12°

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Between the Val di Non and the Paganella plateau

Spormaggiore is located at an altitude of 565 meters, on a slope that marks the transition between the Val di Non, a vast Trentino valley known for its apple cultivation, and the Paganella plateau, the mountain that overlooks Lake Molveno and separates the valley from the Rotaliana basin. The municipal territory, covering just over 30 square kilometers, is divided between the main town and six hamlets, including Bèlfort, Fabbrica, Maurina, Meano, Sedriago, and Seghe, and borders Molveno, Campodenno, Ton, and other neighboring municipalities in the Val di Non and the Brenta Dolomites. This border position between two very different environments, the valley of apple orchards and the calcareous mountain of Paganella, gives Spormaggiore's landscape a transitional character, with woods, meadows, and slopes that guide the gaze from the cultivated valley floor to the highest ridges.

Belpark and the brown bear project

The most famous attraction in Spormaggiore is Belpark, formerly known as Parco Faunistico until 2023, which has been operating since 1994 and is dedicated to the conservation of alpine fauna. The park houses brown bears, along with wolves, whose pack has grown over the years to over ten individuals, lynx, wildcats, otters, foxes, roe deer, and nocturnal birds of prey such as eagle owls. The facility is not a simple zoo but a recovery and study center, often housing animals from confiscations, disused zoos, or inadequate facilities, and complements its exhibition with intense scientific research and environmental education activities. Belpark is linked to the European Life Ursus project, the brown bear reintroduction and monitoring program in the central Alps managed in collaboration with the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, of which Spormaggiore is one of the main outreach points. The visitor route develops in the woods above the town, reachable by a short walk from the inhabited center or from the dedicated parking lot.

Castel Belfort and the historical heritage of the town

The name of the hamlet of Bèlfort recalls the ruins of Castel Belfort, an ancient medieval manor that stands in the municipal territory and was the subject of a restoration intervention in 2012 to consolidate its surviving structures and make them accessible. Not far away, in the main town, is Corte Franca, a building dating back to the 14th century which today houses the Bear Visitor Center, dedicated to research and dissemination on large alpine carnivores and the Life Ursus project. The religious heart of the town is marked by two adjacent churches: the older one, dedicated to San Vigilio, houses a depiction of the Last Supper with statues of Saints Peter and Paul, while the Church of the Nativity of Mary, which became a parish church in 1875, houses a chapel dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie. The first written evidence relating to the territory dates back to the period between 1177 and 1184, when the locality, then called Spaurn, is mentioned in a document related to the Counts of Appiano and an Augustinian chapter.

The apple orchards and the rural landscape of the Val di Non

Come gran parte della Val di Non, anche il territorio di Spormaggiore è segnato dalla melicoltura, l'attività agricola che ha trasformato nel corso del Novecento i versanti della valle in un susseguirsi ordinato di meleti. Qui si coltiva soprattutto la varietà Golden Delicious, alla base della Mela Val di Non, primo prodotto ortofrutticolo italiano ad aver ottenuto il marchio DOP, commercializzata in gran parte attraverso il celebre consorzio Melinda. I filari di meli accompagnano le strade di fondovalle e i primi pendii, alternandosi a tratti di bosco misto che salgono verso la Paganella, mentre più in quota il paesaggio si fa via via più selvatico, con boschi di conifere e latifoglie che custodiscono la fauna alpina protagonista del vicino Belpark. In primavera, la fioritura dei meleti regala alla valle una delle immagini più riconoscibili del Trentino, mentre in autunno la raccolta scandisce ancora oggi il ritmo di vita di molte famiglie del paese, per le quali l'agricoltura resta un'attività centrale accanto al turismo naturalistico.

Storia, identità e occasioni di visita

La storia amministrativa di Spormaggiore ha conosciuto diversi passaggi: tra il 1929 e il 1947 il comune fu denominato semplicemente Spor, mentre nel 1928 assorbì temporaneamente i territori di Cavedago e Sporminore, ricostituiti come comuni autonomi nel 1947. Questa vicinanza storica e amministrativa con Sporminore, comune distinto situato più a nord in Val di Non, testimonia i legami stretti fra i paesi della zona, pur mantenendo Spormaggiore una propria identità, rafforzata anche da tradizioni linguistiche locali legate al dialetto nonesio. Oggi il paese unisce diverse ragioni di visita: la giornata al Belpark tra orsi e lupi, una passeggiata tra le rovine di Castel Belfort, la scoperta della Corte Franca e delle sue attività di ricerca sull'orso, la sosta nelle due chiese del centro storico e le camminate tra i meleti che, a seconda della stagione, regalano fioriture o la vendemmia della mela. È una combinazione che rende Spormaggiore una tappa interessante per chi visita la Val di Non e la Paganella con uno sguardo rivolto tanto alla natura quanto alla storia locale.

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  • The Belpark, home to brown bears, wolves and alpine wildlife
  • The Bear Visitor Centre at the 14th-century Corte Franca
  • The ruins of Castel Belfort, in the hamlet of the same name
  • The Church of San Vigilio with its ancient depiction of the Last Supper
  • A walk among the Val di Non orchards toward the first slopes of the Paganella

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