Bryce Valley
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Bryce Valley, which is part of the ski resort of Alta Pusteria, located in the heart of the mountain world of the Dolomites. The local landscape is characterized by a variety of manifestations of karst processes: There are almost all types of events - mines, crevices, cracks, wells and sinkholes. The latter are small sinkhole, which is usually formed alpine lakes.

Bryce Valley is an ideal place for active recreation - sport like myself will find not only the fans of hiking and mountain biking, but also mountaineers and climbers. Their efforts will certainly be rewarded with breathtaking views from the peaks of the Dolomites. In winter you can find plenty of cozy alpine huts, snow-covered slopes and cross-country skiing.

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

Other notable Bryce Valley Church - built in 1335, the year the Church of San Vito with the neo-Gothic altar and a church in Ferrara di Bryce, built in 1735, the year and famous for its frescoes.

Is inseparable from the valley are its healing springs. The history of their use goes back to the ancient times. And it is known that in 1490, the year a simple but highly ambitious local sawmill worker appealed to the Lords mountaineers to allow him to build the so-called "deer-key" building for the maintenance and treatment of the sick and afflicted. Permission was granted, and a year later the Princess Paula mountaineers visited the first spa complex, which cured their sick limbs. For 40 years - from 1830 to 1870-th years - a spa in the valley Bryce visited over a thousand people, which is an incredible amount for the time!

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