Montassilone

The Montassilone Round Trip, a mountain bike tour, shows you the beauty of the area around Gais and Perca

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Idyllic winter picture of Montassilone (Tesselberg) above Villa Ottone with its farms and the church, which is now supplied from Rio Molino.
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The rarely heard church patrons Chrysanthus and Daria are early Christian martyrs who were depicted on frescoes in Ravenna already in 560.
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The farms have hipped roofs, i.e. roofs that also have sloping roof surfaces on the gable side.
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The view from Montassilone stretches over wide meadows with barns, fields and forests down into the valley: stress and hectic are infinitely far away.
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View from Montassilone, a district of Gais, on the Monte Kor and the peaks of the Zillertal Alps overlooking the Valli di Tures and Aurina.
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The village lies on the edge of the Vedrette di Ries-Aurina Nature Park and owes its name to the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III (742-796 AD).
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The small village church was dedicated to Saints Chrysant and Daria: The drawings on the exterior walls date back to the Baroque period.
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St. Chrysant and Daria is a late Gothic building dating from 1441, with a rococo altar from the second half of the 18th century inside.
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The Montassilone Round Tour is a cycling tour that takes you along the road to Ameto, Perca and Luns, all of them small villages along the route.
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A 1.5 hour hike brings you to the Montassilone Mountain Hut, which is located at 2,025 m a.s.l. on the way to Mt. Bel Colle.
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If you want to hike further, you can tackle Mt. Bel Colle, Schönbichl (Beautiful Hill) in German, which offers an impressive view from the summit cross.
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Montassilone in autumn: The bus takes you up here from Villa Ottone, so you can comfortably complete the tour through the Bear Valley.
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Just like Rio Molino and Lana di Gais, Montassilone is also one of the small hamlets on the slope that together with Gais and Villa Ottone form the municipal area of Gais. You can reach the small hamlet from Gais village at the entrance to the Valli di Tures and Aurina or from Perca village a little above Brunico. Along this road leads the popular Montassilo Round Trip, a mountain bike tour on asphalt which is also suitable for racing cyclists and takes about three hours.

Impressive in Montassilone are the paired farmsteads with hipped roofs, which are grouped together with the houses around the Church of Saints Chrysant and Daria. Montassilone has few inhabitants, everyday life seems very far away. Mountain tours take you from here to the summit of Mt. Geige or Mt. Bel Colle, with the way back via the Montassilone Mountain Hut, where a stop for refreshments is worthwhile. The descent is somewhat easier, for example on the excursion from Montassilone through the Valle dell'Orso or Bärental valley - literally the Bear Valley - to the legendary Chela Castle in Gais. You can take the bus back.

Several legends tell of Montassilone (Tesselberg). If you believe them, on the way to the Montassilone Hut you can meet the little men "Tesselberger Männlein", who used to dig for mineral resources. They are little brownies who still live in the tunnel holes and are directly connected to Mt. Untersberg in Salzburg. Another legend tells that in Montassilone Barbarossa - Emperor Redbeard - will pass by when he re-establishes his empire in the south.

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