Cembra Valley: general description
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The Cembra Valley follows the lower course of the Avisio brook, tributary of the Adige that starts in the Marmolada mountains: during the centuries, this brook has carved in the porphyric rocks its steep slopes (above the Cembra Valley, along the Avisio, there are the Fiemme Valley and the Fassa Valley, in Trentino too).
The confluence between the Avisio and the Adige is nearby Lavìs, a little town 234 metres high (768 feet), few kilometres north from Trent.

In the central zone of the valley (about 300 to 700 metres high, 1000 to 2300 feet) both banks are cultivated with wide terraces. Many vineyards and some orchards are present in the zone where the valley is wider, in proximity of the town of Cembra, which gives it the name.

Widespread is also the growing of the little fruits: I can personally guarantee on the goodness of the Cembran strawberries and raspberries  

In Albiano, on the southern slopes of the valley, instead, there are the porphyry quarries: its extraction and working constitute one of more profitable activities of the valley, so much so that this reddish stone was sometimes named the red gold.

The Cembra Valley, in the eighteenth-century map of the Tyrol
by Peter Anich and Blasius Huber ¹
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© 2005, Fabio Vassallo