Art & Culture on the Ritten in South Tyrol

Whoever is interested in art and culture will be offered a lot on the Ritten. That begins already with the churches, to which the more than 30 Churches and chapels bear witness. Worth seeing above all are the St. Antonius Church in Klobenstein (built 1673, with pictures by Unterberger and Henrici), the parish church of Lengmoos with tower and portal from the 13th Century and the oldest House of God on the Ritten, the Nikolaus church in Mittelberg from the 13/14th Century with important frescoes.

The delicate neo-gothic church at the old farmstead of Kematen above Klobenstein was copied exactly in 1895 from the old-gothic, 400 year older St. Martin's church in Goeflan in the Vinschgau. A further strange thing to be found in the pilgrimage church of Maria Saal from the 16/17th Century is a painting of the Virgin with an umbrella! Particularly worth seeing are the little church of St. George and James (Jakob), standing alone on a hill below Maria Himmelfahrt (with beautiful late Romanesque frescoes), as well as the church of St. Verena between Lengstein and Barbian (mentioned for the first time in 1256; the tower dates from the 14th Century), which because of its idyllic situation on a glacier-smoothed outcrop lures one to stay and dream.