San Lorenzo in Banale is located 36 km from Trento, capital of the homonymous province. This small, but pretty town is located at the entrance of the Ambiez Valley, thus becoming the gateway to the Adamello Brenta Natural Park. It was born from the merger of seven Villas: Berghi, Dollaso, Glolo, Pergnano, Prusa, Senaso, which over time have created a single urban center.

San Lorenzo in Banale is a rural village and its peasant history has been collected in the Park House “There Was once,” from which you can start your visit. Another example of the history of Contatinda represents Casa Mazzoletti with stables and cellars on the ground floor, kitchen and rooms on the first floor, the covered bays and the hay stores on the third and fourth, and finally the plans of attic for drying straw.

Here in autumn the Festival of Ciuìga takes place, typical salami for San Lorenzo, produced from minced pork mixed with turnips. Other wonderful examples of rural architecture such as Casa Moscati and Casa Martinoni, which was once perhaps a convent, are found in Glolo. Senaso, the best preserved among the seven Villas, also boasts of a beautiful rural home Casa dei Sartorei. Senaso preserves the memories of Malgari and cheesemakers, craft hunters and expert packers of doughs.

This is where the tradition of handcrafted smoking of this cold cuts is cultivated: it takes place every autumn in the smokehouse, inside the old turnario dairy. Each fraction has its own bell tower. And each of them corresponds to a church. Very beautiful is the church of Sant'Antonio located in Dolaso, dating back to the fifteenth century.