POZZA      Poza      1310 m

INHABITANTS: 1730                                 What does Pozza offers

Nr. of Hotels: 52 Beds: 2616

DERIVACION: from latin "puteus", that is "pool of water"

NICKNAME OF THE INHABITANTS "Ciavai", that is "horses", maybe to decribe the temper a little arrogant of its inhabitants.

Pozza is a rather big town in the middle of the Fassa Valley, just in front of the Monzoni Group, at the beginning of the S. Nicolò Valley. It offers a lot of services for tourists: post office, citiy hall, chemist, doctor, two churches (one in the hamlet of Meida), bank, ski school (downhill and crosscountry); the large crosscountry track that bounds Pozza with its hamlet Pera is very good, while in the field of downhill we have to mention the "Ski Stadium Aloch", just in the center of the town, provided with floodlighting, that permits to ski by night. In the main street, you can find also all kind of shops. During the summer, the municipal administration often organises shows under the big marquee built along the Avisio. Pozza is also the starting point for al lot of trekking tours in the Monzoni Valley and S. Nicolò Valley. The parish church is rather modern, also in the structure: it was built in 1956.57 and it's dedicated to S. Maria Ausiliatrice.

THE HAMLETS

PERA

1326m

It's a little centre around one kilometer in the north from Pozza, and it's the starting point of the chair lift of the Catinaccio, very crowded both in summer and in winter. The name comes from "petra", that is "stone". In Pera start the little buses that make a transport service till the Valley of Gardeccia, at the feet of Catinaccio (after 9 a.m. the waiting line could be very long; you could take half an hour to reach the bus"). Two churches are in Pera: the ancient church of S. Lorenzo, very caracteristic, and the huge and modern. The nickname of the inhabitants of Pera is "musciac", that means "people that usually live between wolves and skinners.

MEIDA 

1329m

It's a little village virtually joined with the rest of Pozza, in the highest part of the town. The importance of Meida lies in the valley station of the cableway of Buffaure, a very popular skiarea (particulary after the recent improvements), and in its position just at the beginning of the S. Nicolò Valley. In the square in front of the cableway station, each week is organised a big market. The church is dedicated to S. Nicolò: it dates back to the XV century and, after having been destroyed by a fire in 1905, it was rebuilt in 1906, becoming a parrih church in 1953.

MONCION   (Munciòn)

 1510m

It's situated on the road that leads to the Gardeccia Valley, just a hundred meters after the little hamlet of Ronch. Moncion offers in practise nothing, except the lifestyle of an ancient mountain village, where the devastation of tourism isn't come yet.  The little church of S. anna is very nice; in her honour, the inhabitants of Moncion organise each sommer, July the 26, a wonderfull village fair. A few meters after the hamlet, the road stops and from this point it can be trvelled over only by the buses starting from Pera. The nickname of the inhabitants is "brujasanti", that means "saint burners", maybe in order to describe the religious temper of these people.