Whether you love outdoor winter sports or summer sports or enjoy a day relaxing in nature or savouring the local culinary specialities, whether you are passionate about the local history and culture or want to discover the mining tradition…Valle Trompia offers a world of unique experiences just waiting to be discovered.
A slope dedicated to children aimed at introducing them to the world of skiing. The slope comes complete with a ski conveyor belt, the possibility of hiring equipment and booking ski lessons, depending on the availability of the affiliated schools.
This underground path of about 2.5 km allows safely exploring the mine on foot "in its natural state", as it was left when the mining activity was abandoned. The entire visit takes place on foot, equipped with helmet torches to illuminate the path and aims to uphold the memory of the work of the miners, to promote a great heritage ...
A disused mine has now become a maturing mine: the home of Nostrano Valtrompia DOP, the cheese symbolising Valle Trompia and the first mountain product to have been awarded the Denominazione di Origine Protetta (Protected Designation of Origin) status. Thanks to recovery and redevelopment works by the Comunità Montana di Valle Trompia and to the technical analysis of the University ...
Monte Guglielmo, a grassy expanse of great naturalistic, religious, economic and social value, is by far the most popular and loved mountain in Brescia. This peak is what remains of a vast coral atoll and therefore consists of compact dolomitic limestone with numerous karstic caves and fossil deposits. The Adamello, Presanella, Monte Baldo, Monte Rosa, Bernina, Cevedale, Apennine chain and ...
At 899 metres, Monte Pernice is an ideal destination for low to medium difficulty walks along the paths leading from Brione to the surrounding chestnut groves and farmsteads. Starting from the municipal water point and taking the Sentiero della Resistenza (Resistance Trail), it is possible to reach a farm with a panoramic view over the entire Valle Trompia and Franciacorta. ...
Formally recognised as a museum by the Lombardy Region in 2010, this site was created to contextualise the firearm sector in the lives of the people of Gardone. The exhibition presents both the historical evolution of weapons, represented by the most significant examples of firearms, sidearms and armour produced in Gardone between the 15th and 20th centuries; as well as ...
The "C. Giancola" Ethnographic Museum in Collio consists of a collection of about 1300 different types of objects that mostly belonged to Doctor Claudio Giancola, a native of Collio. Divided by type, visitors can admire objects from the peasant era such as wooden butter churns and moulds, wrought-iron sheep shearing scissors forged in one piece, valuable objects from wealthy and ...
Located in the hamlet of Invico, the Ethnographic Museum was founded in the early 1980s by a group of locals from Lodrino who wanted to protect the artefacts of the peasant and artisan culture of the past. In fact, in the past Lodrino was named as one of the lands donated with their servants to the Monastery of Santa Giulia ...
Come and discover the "I Magli" Museum (Forgers’ Museum) of Sarezzo! The 16th-century forge in Sarezzo comprises a fascinating museum and Ecomuseum itinerary aimed at discovering the centuries-old traditions of Valle Trompia linked to the processes of extracting, casting and producing iron. In the 18th century, the forge appeared in the list of the Bailo family's possessions and was indicated ...
The foundry in Tavernole sul Mella is a 15th-century production structure whose name once identified both the tower, where the mineral was transformed and the building with all the annexed structures. The foundry entered the production circuit in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was later transformed into a sawmill and remained so until the 1950s, when it ...
The Pezzaze Mining Museum includes the Marzoli Mine and the "Il Mondo dei Minatori e l'Arte del Ferro" museum. Open to the public since 1999, the Marzoli Mine today represents a place of collective memory: entering it is equivalent to crossing the threshold of an environment where all the senses are ready to grasp every slightest variation. The first opportunity ...
The architectural complex called Antico Broletto, in the hamlet of Mondaro houses the ORMA Museum: the only archaeological museum in Valle Trompia. The three-story museum space is divided into historical periods. The archaeological materials on display come from the "Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio" of Brescia and Bergamo and from the Civic Museums of Brescia. Neolithic Starting from the ...
