The Agritur Cristina is located in Smarano (1000 m s.l.m.) in Val di Non - Trentino -, on the Predaia plateau. It enjoys a splendid view over the famous "valley of Melinda apples" and is the ideal place to regenerate, combining relaxation with the contact with nature, sports, walks in the woods and visits to the most famous places in the valley, without forget to take part in the numerous initiatives and events organized throughout the territory throughout the year.
Included in the price we have the GUEST CARD TRENTINO:
Guest Card with which you can enter with a special discount in more than 70 services in Trentino among the major museums, parks, castles, shuttle buses, attractions (some also free) and travel for free on public transport throughout the province (city buses, extra-urban and trains).
- parking area
- garden with relax corner, table, chairs, deckchairs and barbeque
- free wifi internet
- tour desk: we can help you organize your trips in the valley with relevant maps.
Internal Services: Final cleaning, Heating, TV in room, TV sat, Wifi, Acces Internet
Educational activities: Guided tour of the farm
Courses: Courses Cuisine
External services: Barbecue, Rental Bikes, Car park
Experiences: Cycle tourism, Trekking, Stables & Riding, Family & Children, Art and Culture, Romantic escape, Winter sports, Religious pilgrimages, Golf, Food and Wine
The facilities include: elevator, wide private parking area, garden/solarium with sunbeds and barbecue, a little recreation garden for children. Small pets are also welcome.
You can hire bikes and have information about the attractions to visit, both natural and built-up (castles, churches, mansion houses), folk festivals and events all over the valley.
Breakfast at Agritur Cristina is always carefully prepared and served. It’s realized with love and care, almost entirely using the products of the family farm: indeed you can find not just the products that usually are served in hotels (i.e. the, coffee, milk, biscuits, toasts, cornflakes, etc.), but also homemade, typical and natural food, like:
- raspberry, apple, elder, sour cherry juice;
- raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, redcurrant, apple, cherry, sour cherry, yellow and red plum, apricot jam
- White bread, bread with pumpkin or sunflower seeds, cumin, walnuts
- White yogurt
- Apple, carrot and yogurt pies, apple fritters, baked apples
- Typical cakes like strudel, “brezedel”, “zelten” and “torta sbrisolona”
- Seasonal fresh fruit
- Honey from local farms
- Cheese, ham, salami, bacon and other meat produced in local farms and dairies.
Equipped with a lift, outside it offers ample private parking, a garden/solarium with relative deck chairs and a barbecue for preparing tasty chops! Numerous playgrounds nearby. Free WI-FI Internet, mountain bike, trekking poles and snowshoes rental, and obtain information on places of interest to visit, on the natural and landscape beauties to admire as well as on village festivals and events organized on the Predaia plateau and throughout the remaining territory of the Val di Non.
Where we are
San Romedio is the most interesting example of medieval christian art in Trentino. It’s a Franciscan sanctuary, 3km from Sanzeno, that rises on a chalky rock, 70 m high, in the middle of a wild gorge where Verdes stream merges into San Romedio stream: there it appears to visitors in all its breathtakingly beauty. The complex was built in different periods of time starting from the 5th century and it reached the present appearance during the 18th century. In an evocative and bold architectural way, following the rocky spur, visitors go up 131 steps to the top of the rock, through three superimposed churches.
You can go there from Sanzeno, through the way that follows San Romedio stream in the narrow gorge, or start from the Retical Museum and walk a striking path (2.5 km) flanking the mountain.
Castel Thun
Castel Thun is a castle, well-proportioned result of different building steps, that overlooks the vale from a high hill. It’s surrounded by a composite fortification complex of towers, bulwarks, moat and bastions; wide gardens spread over hill and dale. Crossing the large Spanish Door, you get to the drawbridge and the courtyard, where the mansion is built.
On the inside there are numerous halls, still luxuriously furnished, and a very interesting portrait collection of the noble family. The most renowned room is the Bishop's room (16th century), entirely lined with Cimbrian wood; but there are also the kitchen, the weapon room, living rooms and bedrooms.
Castel Thun is always been inhabited, and it maintained its furniture in the course of time; but after the fall of the lineage, in 1926 it passed to the bohemian branch of the family and when the last Thun descendant, Franz Thun Hohenstein, died in 1992, the local Council bought the monument, its rich art collections, the invaluable library and archive.
Tovel Lake and Adamello Brenta national park
Tovel Lake is the most evocative lake in the valley, set into Brenta Dolomites, recently declared a UNESCO world heritage site. Its water come from the snow melt, so it doesn’t have an inlet river. You can walk around the lake enjoying the amazing colours, from brilliant green to crystal blue; it’s also the starting point of trails to a lot of mountain huts where you can eat and be delighted by an unique sight of Val di Non.
Just to preserve the nature, during the summer you can get to Tovel Lake only by the shuttle bus from Cles.
The Adamello Brenta national park is the largest protected area in Trentino and it’s located in the western part of Trentino, including both the Adamello and Brenta mountain ranges, which are separated from Rendena Valley and included between Non, Sole and Giudicarie valleys. Inside the park there is the Adamello glacier, one of the most wide in Europe.
“CANYON VALLEY”
Val di Non is also known as “the Canyon Valley”, with its two canyon Rio Sas and “Parco Fluviale Novella”. Narrow gorges, from 25cm to 30m deep, high rocks with whirling water falls merge into a thick vegetation; also barrages, thermal resort, hydroelectric central that narrate the history of our land.
Thanks to walkways and ladders you can go inside a charming land with fossils, stalactites and stalagmites created by erosion, red and green algae that colour with unexpected flames the rocks, unique and lush vegetation given by constant atmosphere and humidity.
You can visit the canyon just booking the tour.
Special routes
For who loves mountain bikes and trekking there are special routes with short, medium or long distance and different rise and difficulty. Through mountains, woods, apple fields, you’ll know Val di Non in all its beauty and uniqueness: can you imagine to walk or pedal through apple orchards in bloom or full of Melinda apples?