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    The Val Bregaglia (Lombard: Val Bregaja; German: Bergell, pronounced [bɛʁˈɡɛl] ; Romansh: Val Bregaglia) is an alpine valley of Switzerland and Italy...
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    Castasegna, Soglio, Stampa and Vicosoprano, all located in the Val Bregaglia. Bregaglia is the only Italian-speaking municipality in Switzerland in which...
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    drained by the Moesa, the Val Bregaglia, drained by the Mera, the Val Poschiavo, drained by the Poschiavino, and the Val Müstair, drained by the Rom...
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    Maloja Wind (category Val Bregaglia)
    mountain and valley winds. The phenomenon is caused by wind from the Val Bregaglia crossing the Maloja Pass and intruding into the Engadin. The Maloja...
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    Calanca Valley. It is the valley formed by the river Moesa. Like the Val Bregaglia or the Val Poschiavo, the Valle Mesolcina is a valley lying south of the main...
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    Piz Badile (category Val Bregaglia)
    along the summit ridge. Its north-east face, overlooking the Swiss Val Bregaglia near Soglio, is considered one of the six great north faces of the Alps...
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    Maloja Pass (category Val Bregaglia)
    Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking the Engadine with the Val Bregaglia, still in Switzerland and Chiavenna in Italy. It marks the divide between...
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    Italian valley, the Val Bregaglia, and is known as Bergell in German. Other names which are applied to the range include the Val Masino Alps and, to describe...
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    Chiavenna (category Val Bregaglia)
    kilometres (10 mi) north of Lake Como. The river course leads up to Val Bregaglia in the east and the Swiss border at Castasegna. In the north, the Valle...
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    intended for pan-regional use, was introduced in 1982. The dialect of the Val Bregaglia is usually considered a variety of Lombard, and speakers use Italian...
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    side, the Maloja Pass drops precipitously down to the Italian spoken Val Bregaglia (German: Bergell) and then over the Swiss-Italian border further down...
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    the reservoir's dam in Switzerland. Turning south again it traverses Val Bregaglia at Castasegna and turns east towards Cima di Castello, now forming the...
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  • page. Formerly at didael.it. Balançoires sans Frontières - Castasegna, Val Bregaglia, CH See Brian Davies's bio compilation at https://web.archive...
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    Pass and the river Gelgia; from the Bernina Range in the south by the Val Bregaglia. The Oberhalbstein Alps are drained by the rivers Hinterrhein, Gelgia...
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  • The Bergalei were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the Val Bregaglia during the Iron Age and the Roman period. The ethnic name Bergalei appears to derive from...
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    Acquafraggia (category Val Bregaglia)
    an elevation of 3,050 metres (10,010 ft), on the north side of the Val Bregaglia and close to the Swiss border which here marks the limit of the Po drainage...
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    two-day hiking trail connects most of the locations of the family in Val Bregaglia. Augusto was part of the successful Giacometti dynasty of painters....
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    Venetian service. Another regiment, belonging to the Salis family of the Val Bregaglia, was recruited by the Republic around the same time. In 1571, a contingent...
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    Mera (Lake Como) (category Val Bregaglia)
    flows east in the direction to Maloja Pass, then turns west through the Val Bregaglia (German: Bergell) and crosses the border to Italy in Castasegna (Dogana)...
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  • he got to know Federico of Salis, scion of a powerful family of the Val Bregaglia. Federico's following contained members of both religious confessions...
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    as - in the Canton of Grisons - the Val Mesolcina, the Val Calanca, the Val Bregaglia, the Val Poschiavo and Val Monastero (all, except the latter, in...
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    Mincio Oglio (Lake Iseo) Val Camonica Adda (river) (Lake Como) Breggia Val Bregaglia (Mera) Valle Spluga (Liro (stream - SO)) Val Brembana Valsassina (Pioverna)...
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    Vicosoprano (category Villages in Bregaglia)
    Graubünden and is the largest village in the Val Bregaglia. It's now part of the municipality of Bregaglia. Vicosoprano is first mentioned in 1096 as Vicus...
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    the Val Poschiavo, one of the four valleys of the Italian Graubünden, where the official language is Italian. The other valleys are Val Bregaglia, Mesolcina...
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  • Casaccia may refer to: Casaccia, Graubünden, a village in the Val Bregaglia, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden Casaccia, Ticino, a settlement in the Barbengo...
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    Valley Val d'Aveto Val Polcevera Astino Valley Val Bregaglia Val Brembana Val Camonica Valchiavenna Valganna Valle Sabbia Valsassina Val Taleggio Val Trompia...
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    France, brought nut trees back with him which he was able to plant in Val Bregaglia. Another theory, that comes up often in the literature, is that the...
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    (Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti) in the nearby mountain valleys Val Bregaglia and Engadin in the canton Grisons in Switzerland. Over the last 15 years...
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    Casaccia, Graubünden (category Villages in Bregaglia)
    Casaccia is a village located in the Val Bregaglia, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It lies at an altitude of 1,458 metres above sea level, at the...
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    Piz Duan (category Bregaglia)
    mountain of the Oberhalbstein Range, overlooking Vicosoprano and the Val Bregaglia, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Swisstopo maps Piz Duan on Hikr...
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