Aldino

Aldino counts to one of the oldest settlements on the mountain range Monte Regalo. Here the language boundaries between German and Italian run parallel to each other.

The municipality exists of the villages Holen and Radein it lays upon a wavy surface between Ora and Monte San Pietro. Mountain meadows, fields and alpine pastures share the landscape, the background is made by “the mountain twins” Black and White Horn.

As old documents prove, this area has already been settled of the Bajuwares. In a document belonging to emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, Aldino is named in the year of 1175. Even nowadays the inhabitants of this area till Regglberg are called :”the Hessen” that refers to immigrants from areas which were not Bavarian.

Aldino is the home country of famous personalities as Cardinal J.B.Franzelin, one of the initiators of the first Vatican Council and Earl Andreas Alois Dipauli von Treuheim, president of the superior court under Napoleon and of the congress of Vienna. He grew up in Aldino as an orphan, working on a farm.

Worth seeing at Aldein.

. The church of the holy Jakob and the holy Helena, the first time mentioned in the 14^th century.

. The ruins of the Leiterburg at the Leiter path.

.The Burgstallegg, places with pre historical castles to escape.

.The Butterloch for geological friends.

. The bridge of Aldein, over the Schwarzenbach.

.The place of pilgrimage, Maria from Weißenstein.

.The native house of cardinal Franzelin.

.The fully restored mills in Thal.

.The village museum.

.The visitors centre of the geographical Bletterbach with museum and the gorge of Bletterbach.

.The Father stone at Carnol.

.The witch stone.