Almost 90% of the trees in the forest of Paneveggio - a 2,700 hectare strip of woodland that fans across the upper basin of the Travignolo valley, between the Lagorai chain, Pale di San Martino and Cime di Bocche, at an altitude between 1,400 and 2,150 m - are European spruce. These include several that are centuries old which can reach 40m in height, associated with silver fir at the lower levels and larch and stone pine higher up.
The area is also known as the “violin forest”. Like Stradivarius in the past, Italian and European violin makers still come to the forest today to choose the best spruce for resonance, essential to the musical instruments.
Once property of the counts of Tyrol, therefore Austrian, the forest of Paneveggio passed to the Italian state after WWI and later, following the statute of autonomy, to the Trentino-Alto Adige Region and then to the Autonomous Province of Trento.
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