A suggestive, moderately challenging hike among waterfalls and impressive watercourses, welcoming shelters, and legends of devils and witches. Val Genova is a magical place full of energy.
Beautiful and wild, Val di Genova penetrates into the frozen heart of the Adamello, keeping ancient stories and a touch of magic.
Situated in the Adamello Brenta Natural Park, it separates the two giants Presanella and Adamello, winding through steep cliffs and dense forests until revealing, after 17 km, the majestic Matarot glacial amphitheater.
This valley was the site of the first mountaineering explorations and, later, of the battles of the “White War”, whose signs are still visible today.
Water is its distinctive element: it flows impetuously among rocks and falls in spectacular waterfalls like those of Lares and Nardis.
It is said that, at the time of the Council of Trent, witches were banished here. Just legends? Perhaps. But there are those who swear that something... inexplicable happened in Val Genova.
Continue your walk on The Way of the Valleys, choose other valleys to explore among the 50 offered! Discover them all and create your credential to record your passages here: www.campigliodolomiti.it/laviadellevalli.
THE CLOSEST VALLEYS:
Along the sides of Val Genova, many secondary valleys branch off, like a fishbone, orthogonally going into the mountain groups of Adamello and Presanella that delimit it:
- Val Nardis
- Val Siniciaga, from which Val Germenega also starts
- Val di Lares
- Val Rocchette
- Val Folgorida
- Valle Stablel
- Val Gabbiolo
- Val di Cercen
