The Valle Sabbia is the second-largest of the Tre Valli Bresciane (''Three
Brescia
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n valleys''), situated in the eastern part of the
province of Brescia
The Province of Brescia ( it, provincia di Brescia; Brescian: ) is a Province in the Lombardy administrative region of northern Italy. It has a population of some 1,265,964 (as of January 2019) and its capital is the city of Brescia.
With an ar ...
.
Geography
Physically it constitutes a single valley with
Val di Chiese
The Chiese, also known in the Province of Brescia as the Clisi, is a Italy, Italian river that is the principal immisary and sole emissary of the sub-alpine lake Lago d’Idro, and is a :wikt:left bank, left tributary of the Oglio.
The river rise ...
. It is bounded by
Lake Garda
Lake Garda ( it, Lago di Garda or ; lmo, label=Eastern Lombard, Lach de Garda; vec, Ƚago de Garda; la, Benacus; grc, Βήνακος) is the largest lake in Italy.
It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, about halfway between ...
to the east,
Val Trompia The Val Trompia (also: ''Valle Trompia'') is a slightly more than 50 km long valley in the Province of Brescia, northern Italy. It consists of the valleys of the river Mella and its tributaries, north of the city of Brescia. It is situated bet ...
to the west, the
Valli Giudicarie
200px, Territory of Giudicarie (green) in Trentino province (gray)
Giudicarie (also ''Val Giudicarie'' and ''Valli Giudicarie'', german: Judikarien) is an area of Western Trentino, northern Italy, which includes the upper courses of the rivers ...
to the north and the
Pianura Padana
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain ( it, Pianura Padana , or ''Val Padana'') is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy. It extends approximately in an east-west direction, with an area of including its Venetic ex ...
to south. The main approach is on
Strada Statale 237 del Caffaro
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History
The concept was spawned by Luke Johnson (businessman), Luke Johns ...
. It also contains the
river Chiese, tributary and outlet of
Lake Idro
Lake Idro ( it, Lago d'Idro, also ''Eridio'' from la, Eridius lacus, lmo, Lac d'Ider, german: Idrosee) is an Italian prealpine lake of glacial origin situated largely within the Province of Brescia (Lombardy) and in part in Trentino.
At 368 m ab ...
. Its most populous area is Gavardo, which includes the Valle's hospital.
References
*Antonio Fappani, ''La Campagna garibaldina del 1866 in Valle Sabbia e nelle Giudicarie'', Brescia 1970.
External links
Valle Sabbia News€”
Sabbia
Sabbia, Sabine is a ''frazione'' of Varallo in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about north of Vercelli. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 78 and an area of .All demograph ...
Province of Brescia
Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy
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