Valdaone
Valdaone è un comune delle Giudicarie, in Trentino, nato il 1° gennaio 2015 dalla fusione dei tre comuni di Bersone, Daone e Praso...
Actualizado el 18 julio 2026
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Valdaone in the Giudicarie: Bersone, Daone and Praso
Valdaone is one of the youngest municipalities in Trentino, established on 1 January 2015 through the merger of the three formerly independent communes of Bersone, Daone and Praso, which have since become its hamlets. The town hall is in Daone, the most populous centre, while Bersone and Praso each retain their own identity, reflected in their respective parish churches: San Pietro in Praso, Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano in Bersone and San Bartolomeo in Daone. The municipal coat of arms, adopted in 2016, brings together symbols drawn from the territory of the three communities, including the chamois and the arnica flower, representing their union into a single administrative identity while respecting each local tradition. The municipality belongs to the Comunità delle Giudicarie and falls within the Valle del Chiese area, a district marked by low population density and predominantly mountainous terrain, of which Valdaone forms the westernmost stretch, bordering the province of Brescia.
The Val di Daone and the Lakes of Malga Bissina and Boazzo
The territory of Valdaone largely coincides with the Val di Daone, a side valley some thirty kilometres long that runs from the valley floor, just above five hundred metres, up to the Passo della Val di Fumo, almost three thousand metres higher, at the foot of the Adamello massif. It is considered one of the wildest and least travelled valleys in Trentino, crossed by the provincial road that climbs up to Malga Bissina through woods, rock faces and waterfalls. The upper stretch of the valley is dominated by two large artificial reservoirs built for hydroelectric purposes: the lake of Malga Bissina, at 1,789 metres, and further downstream the lake of Malga Boazzo, at 1,224 metres, both fed by the waters of the Chiese river, which rises directly from the glaciers of the Adamello. Higher still lie naturally formed alpine lakes such as Lago Nero and Lago di Campo. The valley, home to brown bears and wolves, attracts hikers and, in winter, ice climbers who find on the frozen waterfalls of its upper reaches one of the most valued ice-climbing grounds in Trentino.
The Adamello-Brenta Park and Mountaineering
Much of Valdaone's territory falls within the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park, established in 1967 and, with over 620 square kilometres, the largest protected area in Trentino. The park comprises two very different mountain systems: the crystalline rock of the Adamello-Presanella group, home to one of the most extensive glaciers in the Alps, and the calcareous-sedimentary Dolomiti di Brenta. It is precisely in the Adamello sector that the Val di Daone unfolds, with peaks rising above three thousand metres and classic mountaineering routes toward the Corno di Cavento and the massif's other summits. The park is today the symbol of the brown bear's presence in the Italian Alps, reintroduced from the 1990s onward through the Life Ursus project, alongside chamois, ibex, red deer and golden eagles. For hikers and mountaineers climbing the Val di Daone, the landscape changes rapidly with altitude, from conifer woods to alpine pastures to the glacial tongues of the Adamello, in one of Trentino's most unspoiled high-mountain environments.
The White War on the Adamello
The mountains closing off the upper Val di Daone were, during the First World War, one of the most extreme fronts of the so-called White War, the fighting that took place between 1915 and 1918 on the Alpine glaciers between Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops. The Corno di Cavento, at 3,402 metres, was the scene of one of the most dramatic episodes of this front: captured by Italian Alpine troops on 15 June 1917 after intense bombardment, it was retaken by surprise exactly one year later by the Austrians, who attacked through a gallery dug into the Lares glacier, before being pushed back once again by the Italians on 19 July that followed. Soldiers on both sides lived and fought for months at altitudes close to three thousand metres, in trenches and barracks carved into rock and ice, facing cold, avalanches and isolation as much as enemy artillery. The White War Museum in Spiazzo Rendena gathers testimonies and objects from this history, while traces of walkways, positions and military shelters are still visible today along the trails that climb from the Val di Daone toward the peaks of the Adamello.
Nature, Mountain Pastures and Experiences
Beyond the major mountaineering routes, Valdaone retains a rural economy tied to alpine pasture farming, with active mountain huts on the slopes surrounding Bersone, Daone and Praso, where livestock is still driven up to graze in summer and traditional malga cheeses are made. The trails linking the three hamlets to the valley's higher elevations reveal this pastoral landscape, interspersed with spruce and larch woods, and lead to vantage points over the lakes of Malga Bissina and Boazzo. The road climbing the Val di Daone, also rideable by bike, has in recent years become a popular route for mountain cycle tourism, while in winter the valley's frozen waterfalls draw ice climbers from across the Alpine arc. The presence of the brown bear, symbol of the nearby Adamello-Brenta Park, together with the area's relative lack of development, make Valdaone a destination suited to slow mountain tourism, away from the main crowds, in a corner of Trentino that remains largely wild.
Not to be missed
- Lake of Malga Bissina and the scenic road through the upper Val di Daone
- Lake of Malga Boazzo amid rock walls and woods
- Hiking or ice climbing toward the glaciers of the Adamello
- Traces of the White War along the trails toward the Corno di Cavento
- A visit to an active mountain hut on the slopes of Bersone, Daone and Praso
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