Val Rosandra

The Val Rosandra (Italian Rosandra, Slovenian Dolina Glinščice ) is a valley along the river Rosandra in the Italian town of San Dorligo della Valle in Trieste. It is the only valley section of the Trieste Karst and was declared a Natural Park in 1996.

Geography

The Val Rosandra is located in the municipality of San Dorligo della Valle Trieste province east of the port of Trieste. The northern part of the valley extends over the border into Slovenia.

Geology

The Val Rosandra is part of a karst landscape. It is located in the western part of the Trieste Karst and forms the only valley section of the plateau.

The valley was due to the erosion caused by the surface water of the river Rosandra. Near the village, the river forms Bottazzo a 30 meter high waterfall, which makes the transition from water-permeable rock on the mountain to the water-impermeable marl in the valley clearly. The waterfall is the beginning of Rosandratals. The subsequent valley gully cuts through the karst plateau from northwest to southeast and follows the course of Rosandraflusses which extends through numerous large and small waterfalls and lakes to the Adriatic.

History

The Val Rosandra as a natural link between the sea and the hinterland has been used in prehistoric times as a transit route for trade.

Discovered in various caves findings are evidence of the presence of man in the Mesolithic and later in the Neolithic period. In the Iron Age the two go Castellieri back on the heights of Monte San Michele and Monte Carso, where today the remains of the walls can be seen. The remains from the Roman period belongs the nearly 14 -kilometer-long aqueduct from the 1st century, which probably supplied the city of Trieste to the 6th or 7th century with water.

In the Middle Ages, the boundary between the territory of Trieste and the Venetian territories of Istria ran through the Val Rosandra, were held in the numerous clashes between the two parties. 1382 Trieste and its adjacent areas presented under the patronage of the Habsburgs. Also Val Rosandra remained Austrian until 1918.

After the First World War the area was annexed to Italy and part of the Venezia Giulia region. After the Second World War was again a limit by Val Rosandra: the bulk of the territory remained under Italy, the northern area, however, was assigned to Yugoslavia.

At the beginning of the 20th century Val Rosandra was discovered by mountaineers and has become a popular destination for mountaineers and climbers. In 1929 the Trieste climber Emilio Comici a climbing school and was the first mountain-climbing courses. In 1940, the refuge Mario Premandura built by Italian mountain Eiger Association Club Alpino Italiano, which is the seat of the climbing school Emilio Comici today.

In 1996, the valley and its surroundings to the Natural Park Riserva Naturale della regional Rosandra was declared.