How to reach Castelfeder
Description Castelfeder:
This magic place at Montagna is perfect for recharging one’s batteries and also children love the unique landscape of the “Arcades of Tyrol”.
Castelfeder is a very interesting area above Ora at Montagna. It is a protected area featuring ponds, moors, rocks and ruins of a castle, which also gives the name to the area and which is located at the top of a 190 m high hill. Castelfeder is a place for little and big researchers, and hiking and climbing is of course a special experience in this area. Sometimes you can even come upon animals such as goats. The remainings of the castle are located at a rise and date back to early Middle Ages.
Once captures the overview you have on this hill understands the choice of this place for building the castle exactly here. The panorama is impressive and you look down on the entire Valle dell’Adige and Oltradige, Appiano and Caldaro up to Salorno. Sacrificial altars and numerous archeological findings dating back to the second millennial BC as well as a Byzantine fortress of 500 AD make Castelvetere a very interesting place for researchers.
Nowadays especially the Barbara chapel is an eye catcher (6th century). Due to the composition of the soil, which is mainly stones, an interesting flora characterise the place and there are shrubberies such as a Submediterranean coppice-wood. Particularly interesting is the flora and fauna in the marshland, lining the Castelvetere trekking path. Raised moors and low mores fascinate visitors with their extraordinarily beautiful vegetation.
We highly recommend a hike across the biotope Castelfeder, as there are lots of places ideal to recharge one’s batteries and many places for children to play.
Furthermore we recommend you:
Visit the museum in spring or autumn, or on a cloudy summer day.
Anyhow, this fabulous landscape is worth to be visited at every season. Please note there is hardly no shelter from sun.
By the way: Arcadia was a mountain and highland in antiquity and belonged to the Greek administration area of Peloponnes. It was located in the middle of the south Greek peninsula. Shielded by the rest of the world, there was a pastoral tribe that lived in keeping with nature, completely free from social burdens and troublesome work.
Contact:
Castelfeder an der Südtiroler Weinstraße Genossenschaft m.b.h
Hauptplatz 5
39040 Auer
+39 0471-810231