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12-759: It connects the Val Gherdëina in South Tyrol and Canazei in the Fascia Valley in Trentino. With Pordoi Pass , Gardena Pass , and Campolongo Pass , this pass forms a quadrangle around the Sella group . In the winter, ski trails are prepared that make the entire round in both directions, known as the Sella Ronda . The Sella Pass is the third of seven Dolomites mountain passes riders cross in

24-797: Is a valley in the Dolomites of South Tyrol , Northern Italy . It is best known as a tourist skiing , rock climbing , and woodcarving area. The valley's main river is the Derjon , a tributary of the Eisack river. The mountains that surround the valley are formed by dolomite rocks , which confer on them a characteristic appearance. Most of the steep slopes are covered by pine woods. The favoured cultivations are barley, rye, potatoes, flax, buckwheat. The three municipalities in Val Gardena are Urtijëi , Sëlva , and Santa Cristina ; they were served by

36-995: Is part of the Sella Ronda alpine ski touring circuit. The Gardena Spring Trophy is an annual international figure skating competition held every spring in the Valley. Val Gardena has a Serie A ice hockey team, the Hockey Club Gardena . Margaret Warner Morley Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858 in Montrose, Iowa – December 12, 1923 in Washington, D.C. ) was an American educator, biologist, and author of many children's books on nature and biology. Morley grew up in Brooklyn . She studied at State University of New York at Oswego and Hunter College . She continued her biology education at

48-585: Is well known for the "Camel Humps" (or "Bumps"), a series of three small jumps which racers must negotiate in quick succession. Two men have won the Saslong title four times in a career: Austrian Franz Klammer (1975, two races in 1976, and 1982) and Italy's Kristian Ghedina (1996, 1998, 1999, and 2001). If Super-G wins are also included, two other men have matched that feat: Peter Müller of Switzerland and Austrian Michael Walchhofer . A women's slalom and parallel slalom were also held in 1975 . Val Gardena

60-723: The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in 1970 . Val Gardena is home to the Saslong Classic , a men's World Cup downhill race that has been held almost every year since 1969 . Since 2002 (and in 1983 ), the downhill has been paired with a Super-G race, and from 1979 to 1982 a combined event was held. The Saslong course is considered one of the five "classic" men's downhill races, along with Garmisch-Partenkirchen 's Kandahar ( GER ), Kitzbühel 's Hahnenkamm ( AUT ), Wengen 's Lauberhorn ( SUI ), and Val-d'Isère 's Criterium ( FRA ). It

72-718: The Val Gardena Railway from 1916 until 1960. The first document about Val Gardena dates back to 993/94–1005: in a tradition note of the diocese of Freising , the Bavarian Count Otto from the Rapoton family transferred, among other things, "ad Gredine forestum" (forest area in Val Gardena) to Bishop Gottschalk of Freising. Val Gardena is one of five valleys with a majority of Ladin speakers (two of these valleys are in South Tyrol ). The form of

84-498: The 19th century. In one of her many trips Margaret Warner Morley went to Europe to Val Gardena where she was inspired to write the novel Donkey John of the toy valley . The Parish Church of Urtijëi displays a rich collection of statues carved by local artists in the last two centuries. The Museum Gherdëina in Urtijëi owns a rich collection of historical wooden toys, and woodcarved statues and figurines . The valley hosted

96-747: The Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago and at the Woods Hole marine laboratory in Massachusetts. She worked as a teacher and was considered an expert in agriculture and beekeeping . She was most well known for her work as an illustrator, photographer, and author of books on nature. As early as 1890 she visited Tryon, North Carolina with the painter Amelia Watson where she resided in

108-653: The Ladin language spoken in this valley is called Gardenese in Italian , Grödnerisch in German and Gherdëina in Ladin . The woodcarving industry has flourished in Val Gardena since the 17th century. Since the 19th century, statues and altars carved in the area have been shipped to Catholic Churches throughout the world. In the 18th century, besides religious statuettes, the production of woodcarved figurines of genre art

120-630: The annual Maratona dles Dolomites single-day bicycle race . It is also on the route of the Dolomites Gold Cup Race . This Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Val Gherd%C3%ABina 46°33′36″N 11°42′17″E  /  46.56000°N 11.70472°E  / 46.56000; 11.70472 Val Gardena ( Italian: [ˌval ɡarˈdeːna, ˌval ɡarˈdɛːna] ; German : Gröden [ˈɡʁøːdn̩] ; Ladin : Gherdëina [ɡʀ̩ˈdɜi̯na] )

132-790: The cottage of playwright William Gillette . She finally acquired her own home in Tryon where she lived for many years. In one of her many trips she went to Europe to the Val Gardena the valley of toy carvers where she was inspired to write the novel Donkey John of the toy valley . A collection of Morley's work is held at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut . The collection consists of travel logs and sketchbooks of rural North Carolina, and book manuscripts. The North Carolina Museum of History owns

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144-438: Was widespread in the valley. Among them statuettes of beggars generally in pairs (female and male), four seasons, watchstands were very popular. In the 19th and 20th century, carving of wooden toys was such a widespread occupation in all Gardenese families that Amelia Edwards called Urtijëi the "capital of Toyland". One of the valley's best-known products is the peg wooden doll which was popular all over Europe and America in

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