Bondone

For centuries Bondone was a village of charcoal burners, who left for eight months of the year to make charcoal across Trentino and the Brescia area, and the trade is still named in the municipal statute. The village sits on a mid-mountain terrace at 720 metres, the southernmost in the Chiese valley, while its second hamlet, Baitoni, lies on the plain by Lake Idro.

Highlights

• Castello di San Giovanni, looking over Lake Idro and towards the Brenta Dolomites
• Lake Idro, on whose shore lies the hamlet of Baitoni
• The charcoal burners' tradition and their pojat, the earth-covered kilns

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