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TheStoni (or Stoeni) people and theGallicCenomani, then the Romans and the Lombards settled the area. The Lodrone family were the lords of Valvestino from 1200 to 1807. The valley was―officially―absorbed by theAustro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-19th century but for many years operated, in effect, as an autonomous region without external oversight, owing to its relative geographic isolation in the mountains.[3] It came to Italy in 1919. Valvestino was separated administratively fromTrentino in 1934, becoming acomune of fivefrazioni (municipal subdivisions): Armo, Bollone, Moerna, Persone andTurano [it]. The ancient administrative autonomy restored to Valvestino in 1947.
The abundance of pastures has always been significant for the village economy, dedicated to cattle raising that survives to the present, in summer mountain barns, with production of milk, from which famous cheeses and butter are obtained. Historically, the cores of the hamlets of Armo, Bollone, Moerna, Persone and Turano are crossings of small passages between peasants' high and narrow houses.[4]
In August, Armo has the Feast of theAlpini (Alpine troops)
A local variation of the traditional religious festival,Festa del Perdono ('Feast of Forgiveness') is held in Turano on the last Sunday of August each year. It commemorates the sojourn of the exiledPope Alexander III, who in gratitude for the villagers' hospitality issued a Papalindulgence, for remission of sins, to the valley's inhabitiants. This tradition, although dating to at least the 15th century, is likely apocryphal.[5]
^Real Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid (May 1909). "Un valle aislado en el suroeste de Trentino".Revista de geografía colonial y mercantil (in Spanish).VI (5−6). Madrid: Spain Ministerio de Estado Sección colonial.
^Magasa, Province of Brescia, DeAgostini, Novara, 2009.
^Gnesotti, Cipriano (1891).Archivio storico italiano (in Latin and Italian). Vol. VII. Firenze L.S. Olschki; Deputazione toscana di storia patria. pp. 65–66.