Non Valley

The valley (Italian Val di Non, on Nones Val de Non) is located north of Trento and is as Comunità della Val di Non valley community a (Italian Comunità di valle ) of the province of Trentino in the Trentino -Alto Adige region of Italy. The area is referred to in German as Nonsberg.

Location

The valley is located west of the Adige Valley and flows through the upper area by the river Rio Novella, which flows into the Lago di Santa Giustina in Cles (German outdated Glöß ). From there, the Val di Sole (German Sulztal or Sulzberg ) coming Noce (German Ulz or Nonsbach ) flows through the lower Val di Non valley, which in turn flows to the Piana Rotaliana in the Adige Valley.

Man Coming reach the valley from the south by the Rocchetta Gorge, from Bolzano to Mendola or by Lana on the Gampenpass.

The valley is a good starting point for excursions to the Brenta and the Ortler massif.

Language

The northernmost three municipalities of the valley belong to South Tyrol. This area is also called Deutschnonsberg. Since the Italian Nonsberg located right on the German language border, but also because of to the 18th century relatively large proportion of the German population, many German words have been added to the language. E. Lenten leads in his Dictionary of anaunischen dialect (1964 ) many words of German origin to, for example: smuzzec ( dirty ), rome (frame), stol ( studs). In almost all Nonsberger communities are found today German names among the most common family name.

Discussions regarding the linguistic classification of the local Romance dialects were the subject of Questione Ladina. The Romanists Graziadio Ascoli and Theodor Gartner treated the language of welschen Nonsberger ( Nones [ stressed: Nones ], also: Anaunisch ) as Ladin and thus part of the Romansh language. Other linguists considered the local idioms as part of a northern Italian dialect continuum.

Others

The largest resort in the Val di Non is Cles (German outdated Glöß ). To the west of Cles Val di Sole is located (German Sulztal or Sulzberg ), which was announced together with the Nonsberg the Romans as Anaunia. In its early history the valley was inhabited by the tribe of the Bechuni. From the pre-Roman period are significant archaeological finds of the Fritz - Sanzeno culture at Nonsberg, including Raetian inscriptions. Many are also the Lombard finds from the period 568-788 AD

The valley is traversed by the narrow- Nonstalbahn, which was until 1934 supplemented by the Nonsbergbahn.

The valley has a temperate climate that makes fruit growing. Meanwhile, one in three harvested and eaten in Italy apple comes from the Val di Non.

Castel Thun

Meli

Lake Santa Giustina

Castello di Cles