The Calvario mountain

The Calvario Mountain towers high above Appiano

It is definietly an attraction. If you come to the centre of S. Michele, the church at the top of the green hill above the village immediately strikes. A path with Stations of the Cross leads you to the top. This green hill is called Calvario mountain, which holds several rare natural monuments...

Slightly behind the church, the Adige glacier left some clear marks. One of this marks belongs to the most beautiful in the area of Bolzano. The moraines, rests of the glacier, offer perfect conditions for the vineyards, which nowadays yield fruit in this region.

In certain areas, the glacier has formed the stones in such a way, that the so called "devil chiars" developed, which have a chair-like structure. A path leads you to these special stones. When the ice was melting, the snowwater flowed down and this caused this special forming of the porphyry and stone sculptures like the "devil chiars" developed.

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