Culture in the triple border

The resorts around the Resiapass in Val Venosta in South Tyrol lies near the boundary at the triple border area, which indicates the border between South Tyrol and the canton of Grisons in Switzerland and the western part of the Austrian Land Tyrol, known as Oberes Gericht.
Along the valley, the Romans built the Via Claudia Augusta, about 2000 years ago, the only road that crosses the Alps. It extends from Altinum in Venice, or rather Ostiglia on Po 'up to Donauwörth in Bavaria, through the Resiapass and the Fernpass. Today the road is a long (600 km) bike path.

Val Venosta offers a variety of traditions and cultural attractions in the background. The territory is rich in romantic churches, ancient names of heretics and cultural expression dating from the medieval period. You will find many cities from the bell tower in the Resia Lake, past the Abbey of Monte Maria in Burgeis, the town of Glorenza, arounded by undatable stone walls, Churburg in Sluderno, and towards the valley, the small village of Laas, down to the Castle Juval,of Reinhold Messner. The Via Claudia Augusta is always in Val Venosta in the area of Resiapass, and has always been a place of mixing between different cultures and different traditions.

The Resiapass is one of the most important Alpine passes from north to south since prehistoric times. Along the edge of the Resia Lake it extends one of the most modern and various tourist regions of the Alps.

Traditions survive till today in Val Venosta: those concerning the period of Carnival ("Zusslrennen" and "Pfluagziachn"), those relating to the winter period, such as' Scheibenschlagen, "during which they are throwing pieces of wood burning in valley . The "Goaßnschnöller" (boat caused by fast movements of the whip) welcome the spring, and the Herz-Jesus-Corpus Christi Feuer, annual, remind
the threat that represented the French for the Land Tyrol.

See attractions in the triple frontier:
  • Convent of Münster in Val Monastero (Switzerland)
  • Castle Naudersburg in North Tyrol (Austria)
  • Tower at the lake - from us to Curon

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