Top 11 Caves ドレーナでの

A very beautiful cycle path with a great panorama of the mountains and Lake Garda.

The grotto can be reached from Ballino in about 30 minutes. The path leads along a road into the forest. From there it is partly steeply uphill. The grotto is really impressive. The path to the upper part of the grotto is very slippery and not without danger.

Don't forget your helmet. There are rusty nails sticking out of the ceiling and more sections may collapse.

Be careful, anyone going in there without head protection will quickly find themselves with an old, rusty nail stuck in their head. They hang from the ceiling in some places. It's generally not safe, as further sections could collapse. Otherwise, this is a tunnel section, but you can't get through. The tunnel connected the Batteria di Mezzo to the steep slope and allowed soldiers quick access to the defensive positions.

Oolite stone quarries dug in the Vastrè hills. The extracted stone, called "statuary stone", was used above all for portals, fountains and statues as it is easily workable. The stone extracted from the quarries was used to create statues that adorn the Taro bridge in Parma, the fountain in Piazza Duomo in Trento, the statues that adorn the Prato della Valle in Padua, some statues found in the Collegiate Church of Arco and the statue of Moses located in the square of Arco. I advise you to enter the quarries and tackle the route inside. The location is truly very suggestive and I would say unique. The extraction planes are inclined about 30° towards the west and in the middle there are rock columns which were used to prevent the roof from collapsing.

Have you ever thought about what you would do in a cave? The one you see was used as a shelter by shepherds for a very long time. Inside there is a natural fireplace, perhaps for this reason it was called "Cosina", which in our dialect means "kitchen". In 1912, during an archaeological excavation, Don Felice Vogt and Giacomo Roberti, an important Trentino scholar of ancient history and archaeology, discovered some very ancient tombs... but I had seen them a long time before! The bones date back to prehistoric times: think, they are more than 4000 years old! Together with bones found a beautiful blade of a flint dagger, a weapon which in the funerary rites of the time probably served to accompany the deceased into the afterlife.

The Vis Ferrata Giulio Segata is a short, tough via ferrata that is divided into two sections. The second section is even harder than the first section, but becomes easier again as you go up. It starts over long smooth steep walls (E). At the top you climb through a cave with all kinds of stepping aids (C).

The cave has a 20m wide and 12m high cave portal after about 50m you are in front of a compact wall which can be climbed. There are clear traces of excavation at the top, but these have not led to any success. This is the end.