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Programm Stelvio - Stilfserjoch National Park 2011
Holiday paradise Latsch-Martell in Stilfserjoch National Park
Stilfserjoch National Park covers an area of 134,620 ha amidst the Central Alps. It includes the whole mountain massif Ortler-Cevedale with its side valleys. The nature reserve borders the Swiss Engadin National Park to the north, 
Adamello-Brenta Nature Park in the Trentino and Adamello Regional Park in Lombardy to the south. This makes it one of the largest and most interesting nature reserves in Europe. The idea of protecting this fantastic mountain world goes back to the beginning of the century, and was given a legal foundation on 24th April 1935. Originally, 96,000 ha were placed under protection. In 1977, the park was extended to its present area. 
The national park displays all elements of alpine geography, from the glacier-covered high mountain chain (Ortler – 3905m), pastures and sloped terraces down to the valley bottoms of Latsch 650m. Within the borders of the national park are also extensive forests and agricultural areas as well as mountain houses, hamlets and villages inhabited all year round. 
It is precisely this coexistence of untouched natural landscapes and a man-made landscape cultivated over centuries with alpine farming and forestry that characterises the landscape of the national park. It is unique in icy heights, where we encounter clear glacier lakes and babbling mountain streams, showing a wonderful variety in all altitudes.
The golden vulture
was exterminated in the whole alpine area in the last century. Up to the present golden vultures survived in Europe only in the Pyrenees, on Corsica and Crete. For years there have been attempts all over the Alps to settle this largest alpine bird here again. In summer 1999 cooperation with the Society for resettling the golden vulture began in the Stilfserjoch National Park/South Tyrol. In June 2000 the release of a pair ensued in the Martell valley (Stallwies). Since then the golden vulture pair flies around the Stilfserjoch National Park . Wild animal biologists, hikers, friends of nature and hunters are happy about this. Nationalparkhaus culturamartell
Farming and man-made landscape - yesterday and today.Trattla 246, Tel. 0473 745 027 - Fax 0473 745 256
The centre point of the exhibition is farm culture and man-made landscape. The bonds existing for centuries between man and nature are extensively displayed on four storeys. Pictures, exhibited objects and narratives of witness of the time on tape vividly describe farm life in the Martell valley.www.culturamartell.com
