Avio is a village of the Vallagarina
and of “Terra dei Forti“. Here the culture of the production of wine is well rooted,and since ancient times has been the pulling economy; in the past, the silk industry was important as well.
There are many wine farms in the area, which have constantly kept updated and thus have brought the local product to be acknowledged at international levels. The modernization of the techniques has also affected animal-breeding, which extends from the mountain pastures of Mount Baldo, down to the industrialised farms in the lower part of the valley. Lately, Avio has also become a place of interest for tourism which, despite being facilitated by the lines of communication (such as the “Ala-Avio” exit of the A22 motorway), was previously concentrated to other resorts, thus leaving this niche of the Vallagarina intact.
Avio – Castello di Sabbionara
TERRITORY OF AVIO
Province: Trento
Fractions: Borghetto Sabbionara Right Vo, Vo Left, Mama and Masi
Surrounding municipalities: Ala, Brentino Belluno (Vr), Brentonico, Dolcè (Vr), Ferrara di Monte Baldo (Vr), Malcesine (VR), Sant ‘Anna d’Alfaedo (Vr)
Altitude: 131 m.s.l.m. – Population: 4,090 – Inhabitants name: aviensi
The town of Avio, dominated by the castle tower, is located at the foot of Monte Baldo, is part of Vallagarina and is located in an area of great natural beauty, lies in a flat valley limited to the west by Mount Baldo and Valpolicella and east by the Lessini. Important wine growing out of which arise renowned wines of Vallagarina joins the cultivation of olive trees, thanks to the mild climate. Avio is the main center of Lower Vallagarina wine, is produced here Cabernet, Merlot Slave and many other wines. Remarkable is also the sheep that uses extensive lawns and numerous pastures of Monte Baldo.
HISTORY OF AVIO
In this area were taken in the light of Roman remains quite important, between these two funerary inscriptions and the beginning of the twentieth century has also been found a necropolis barbaric. During the Middle Ages it was part of the Episcopal Principality of Trento and had a castle which is discussed in the early decades of the year one thousand and granted a fief to Castelbarco in the thirteenth century. In 1411 Ettore Castelbarco dies leaving no descendants, and so the vicarage of Avio along with those of Ala and Brentonico came under the rule of the Republic of Venice, thus beginning a prosperous period. Almost a century later the Venetians were driven by Vallagarina and the territory passed before the Emperor Maximilian, then come back in 1532 to the Bishops of Trentino. In 1664, the last branch of the family of Castelbarco, Val Gresta, definitely buy Avio, Ala, Mori and Brentonico.
TO VISIT IN AVIO
Castle, Parish Church of St. Mary Immaculate Church of St. Anthony, Church of San Leonardo in Nardis
TYPICAL PRODUCTS OF LOCAL CUISINE OF AVIO
Vallagarina wines