Special Protection Area (SPA)
The SPA includes the Brenta Dolomite group and the entire Val di Tovel.
It is one of the most majestic mountain groups in the Dolomites, furrowed on all sides by valleys and gullies, sometimes very steep, with deciduous (downy oak, ash and beech) and coniferous (spruce, fir and larch) forests. At high altitudes, there are extensive mugo forests, alpine pastures and pioneer vegetation on rock faces, scree and mobile and fixed limestone debris with a very rich flora with endemic species and differentiated vegetation in the individual valleys.
In the northernmost part of the massif is the Val di Tovel, which winds its way for a distance of 17 km to the imposing rocky cirque from the Grostè Pass to the Gaiarda Pass, in the heart of the Dolomite massif.
The head of the valley is bordered by imposing peaks, at the base of which scree and debris extend. In the central part of the valley, the bottom is occupied by vast deposits of limestone debris (marocche).