Sondrio - news and informations about Sondrio's district

Sondrio, chieftown, is the main center of Valtellina, situated to the mouth of the Valmalenco. The main activity are the agriculture (to Sondrio are produced excellent wines) and the commerce; in fact is actual from the zone of Sondrio that beginning all the change with the italian countries and foreign hereafterof the Alpi. The fantastic hills and the high mountainous peaks give back the landscape fascinating and spectacular in every period of the year. The zone is a destination more longed from tourists specially in the autumnal period, ideal destination for the fascinated of chestnuts and ushrooms and in the winter period when open the numerous and quite organized ski installations. Artistically sondrio offers ancinet buildings, which the sixteenth century Palace Pretorio, today seat the collegiata of San Gervasio and San Protasio and Palace Sassi de' Lavizzari.