Rocca Pietore
Rocca Pietore is a municipality with 1319 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the Italian province of Belluno, Veneto Region southwest of Cortina d' Ampezzo. A part of the municipality is the ski resort at the foot of the Marmolada Malga Ciapela. Neighboring municipalities are Alleghe, Agordo, Canazei, Colle Santa Lucia, Falcade, Livinallongo del Col di Lana, Pozza di Fassa, San Tomaso Agordino Soraga and Vallada Agordina.
Districts
To the municipality ( the Ladin term in brackets) include the following districts:
- Boscoverde
- Bramezza ( Bremeza )
- Caracoi agoIn ( Caracogn agoIn )
- Caracoi Cimai ( Caracogn Zimai )
- Col di Lastebasse
- Col di Rocca ( Col de Rocia )
- CONDIO ( Congiuo )
- Dagai ( Daghè )
- Davare
- Digonera
- Lastebasse di Sopra ( Lastebasse de Sora )
- Lastebasse di Sotto ( Lastebasse de Sot )
- Le Coste
- Malga Ciapela
- Masarè
- Moe di Lastebasse ( Muiei )
- Molin
- Pian
- Palue
- Pezzè ( Pezéi )
- Rocca Pietore ( Roca, nucleus, community management )
- Ronch
- Santa Maria Delle Grazie ( Zernade ) View of the snowy Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Saviner di Calloneghe ( Savinei )
- Saviner di Lastebasse ( Savinei )
- Soppera ( Sopiera )
- Sopracordevole ( Soracordol )
- Sorarù
- Sottoguda ( Staguda )
- Troi
- Val
Demographics
Population
History
The beginnings of settlement history are shrouded in mystery. You may already have one Lombards settlement, which included the upper valley of Avisio and the Fodom. In the High Middle Ages to the late 14th century Rocca Pietore belonged to the diocese of Brixen Tyrol and. 1395 it fell into the dependence of the city of Belluno and thus belonged to the Republic of Venice, which it, however, a broad, shaped by the Ladin cultural autonomy retained, which was codified in 1417 with the Statute of the Magnifica Comunità Rocca.
After the Napoleonic conquest of the Venetian Republic in 1806 and the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Rocca Pietore fell to Austria in 1866 and returned to Italy.
Since the mid- 1960s, the community has increasingly opened with the construction of the cable cars to the Marmolada tourism. It is part of the initiative Dolomiti Superski. Another tourist attraction is the Serres Gorge in the district Sottoguda.
The Serres Canyon from Sottoguda
The Serres Canyon from Sottoguda is about 2 km long canyon with about 50 meters high walls between Sottoguda and Malga Ciapela. By only 8-10 m wide gorge flows the torrent Pettorina. The gorge is walkable or drivable with a tourist train.
To the canyon is shrouded in numerous Ladin Dolomites word such as that of the Shadow King ( Ré Ombro ), who lived in a castle made of alabaster in the area and whose beautiful daughter Ombretta should marry a prince. Since the envious stepmother turned the king's daughter with the help of a witch on her wedding day in a stone.
Numerous placed into the rocky landscape fairy-tale characters with explanations to make the commission of the Sottoguda gorge particularly attractive to families with children.
The blacksmith
The districts Pian and Sottoguda are internationally known for the blacksmith craft. In the main street of Sottoguda a craft business to the other with numerous wrought iron everyday objects and sculptures lined up.