Priest's Puddle

Description

The meadows, woods and land in Val Lomasona are owned by the Usi Civici, i.e. all the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages who have been involved in the management and maintenance of this territory for centuries.
In Val Lomasona it is possible to come across rare landscapes, consisting of various types of woods that are now extinct in most of the Trentino territory. Areas where human activity is present, but in harmony with the magnificent surrounding environment.

The Pozza del Prete (Priest's Pond) is an interesting waterhole of artificial origin, in which a marsh reed vegetation has developed, surrounded by fir and deciduous woods.

Address

Municipalities concerned

Comano Terme

Area coordinates

webgis.provincia.tn.it

Surface area

Unità di misura	Valore
hectares	0,71

Informazioni di dettaglio

Identification code

Reference database

Local reserves

Protected area classification

Local reserve

Access arrangements

Here the nature trail in Val Lomasona proposed by the Parco Fluviale della Sarca.

The podcast 'The microcosm of Val Lomasona' is also interesting.

Contacts

Managing body

Autonomous Province of Trento (IT)

Contact office

Ufficio biodiversita' e rete natura 2000

Additional information

Items of interest

Lomasona

Provincial nature reserve

The nature reserve coincides with a vast wetland area that occupies almost the entire valley floor of the Val Lomasone, a glacial valley opening onto the Campo Lomaso plain. The landscape is essentially natural, little modified by man, and the peat bog, with its considerable extension, is of enormous value.

The Reserve is also a Special Area of Conservation and is located near the local Lomasona and Pozza del Prete Reserves. It is one of the protected areas that make up the Sarca River Park.

Lomasona peat bog

Special Area of Conservation (SAC)

An elongated and narrow peat bog, located at the bottom of the valley in the Lomaso area (Giudicarie esteriori) and crossed by a small stream that almost at its centre forms some pools with swimming and submerged hydrophytic vegetation.
The vegetation of the peat bog is represented by wet meadows (molinieti) and marshy meadows (cariceti), with some mounds of sphagnum moss.

Lomasona

Local reserve

A peat bog in Val Lomasona, municipality of Comano Terme, located a short distance from the Lomasona Provincial Nature Reserve and the Torbiera Lomasona SAC, to which we refer for further information on nature.

The reserve is one of the protected areas that make up the Sarca River Park.

Lomasona expansion

Biotope not established

The 'Lomasona' biotope coincides with a vast wetland area that occupies almost the entire valley floor of the Val Lomasone, a glacial valley that opens onto the Campo Lomaso plain. It appears as a large wet meadow here and there interrupted by gullies and a few puddles.

Sarca River Park

Located in south-eastern Trentino, the territory of the River Park covers the course of the Sarca river, along its entire 80 km: an ecological corridor that connects Lake Garda to the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, through minor protected areas.
It encompasses 27 protected areas including Natura 2000 sites, nature reserves and local areas, with very different habitats that build an important mosaic of biodiversity: many species of flora and fauna are found here, the only one in the whole of Trentino.

Parco Fluviale della Sarca is the new name of the Sarca Network of Reserves, created in 2019 following the merger of the two Networks of Reserves Sarca Basso Corso (established in 2012) and Sarca Alto Corso (established in 2013).
The leader of the River Park, which covers the territory of no less than 27 municipalities, is the BIM del Sarca.