Top 20 Natural Monuments around Trichiana

The Brent de l'Art are one of Veneto's most fascinating hidden treasures, located in the province of Belluno, specifically in Sant'Antonio Tortal. They are not simple caves, but imposing canyons carved into the rock by the millennia-old erosive action of the Ardo stream. Their most spectacular feature lies in the rock walls, which display perfect, warm-toned stratifications, ranging from brick red to grey and white, creating a breathtaking chromatic contrast with the clear waters of the stream. This almost science-fiction-like landscape, reminiscent of the famous American canyons in miniature, was formed by the friction of water, pebbles, and ice over thousands of years. The site is easily accessible with a short walk through the woods and is a must-see destination for lovers of trekking, photography, and rural geology.

Lago Morto is a striking body of water located in Val Lapisina, in the municipality of Vittorio Veneto, right at the foot of the Treviso side of the Sella di Fadalto pass. Its peculiar name derives from a unique geographical characteristic: it is a lake devoid of visible surface outlets and inlets, as it is fed and emptied exclusively through underground karst pathways. The basin, surrounded by steep wooded slopes and imposing rocky walls, is characterized by deep and cool waters. Today, the lake plays a fundamental role in hydroelectric power production, being connected to the valley's power plant system that utilizes the waters coming from the overlying Lago di Santa Croce. Despite the industrial footprint, the area is a popular destination for relaxing walks, picnics, and sport fishing.

The Brent de l'Art are gorges delimited by rock walls, dug over time by the Ardo torrent. They derive from a change in the course of the Ardo, which occurred due to the clogging of the original riverbed by a landslide

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So called because it has no tributaries and emissaries, Dead Lake is an intravalley lake formed through landslide accumulations that occurred at the end of the ice age. With its 55 m depth, and a reservoir of approximately 20 million square meters of water, it is the largest of the three lakes in the municipality of Vittorio Veneto. It is fed by underground infiltrations that come from Lake Santa Croce and by karst springs from the right side of Col Visentin. Like the underlying Restello and Negrisiola, arranged in succession, these semi-artificial basins were "built" on ancient basins left by the glacier that descended from the Lapisina Valley and in which mirrors of lake water had taken place. In fact, Val Lapisina is what remains of the branch of an ancient glacier that followed the current course of the Piave. The branch, in turn, divided, forming on one side what is today the Valley and on the other the morainic amphitheater located between Vittorio Veneto and Conegliano.

The mill was built in 1630 and shortly afterwards accommodation for the caretaker family, a stable and a granary were added. It exploited the waters of the Lierza stream, the main tributary of the Soligo, at the foot of a 12-metre waterfall; it was decommissioned in 1953. At the end of the twentieth century, after experiencing years of degradation, the mill was purchased by the municipality of Refrontolo, which carried out a careful restoration and turned it into a milling museum as well as a venue for exhibitions, including in 2009, an important retrospective by the painter Angelo Lorenzon and, in winter, the annual International Nativity Exhibition. Source Wikipedia

wonderful gorge dug by the Ardo torrent, near S. Antonio di Tortal (municipality of Borgo Valbelluna) https://prolocotrichiana.it/territorio/brent-de-l-art/

Rolle is a small hamlet of Cison di Valmarino, located on the hills of the Treviso Prealps, crossed by the Strada del Prosecco. In 2004, Rolle became the first Italian village protected by the FAI. Already inhabited since ancient times, starting from the thirteenth century, its history was linked to the presence of a Benedictine community, of which part of the monastery still remains. It is a place that often recurs in the poems of Andrea Zanzotto for the beauty of its landscape that ranges from the surrounding hills to the "heroic" vineyards present along the steep terraced slopes. From here you can enjoy a splendid view of the UNESCO heritage vineyards.