Val di Luce
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A time Goes them of the Pools, the valley, dominated from the Alpe of the Three Powers (mt 1940 slm), is famous today as Val di Luce.

The great wealth of waters creates exactly of the “pools”, from which the ancient name of they goes, that is of the small smalls lake that during the ghiacciano winter creating like of the mirrors punctuating the valley.

In 1935 the area was acquired from engineer Lapo Farinati, first Podestà of as soon as constituted the Common one of Abetone. Intenzionato to realize a huge tourist center that interested all the valley, Farinati launched a plan that previewed the construction of a great hotel, with various dependencies, tracks and systems of gone back, a needle for the skating on the ice and even a race course and an automotive circuit.

Up, on the crinale, a tower illuminated from a great beacon had to rise, that it would have made of Goes them of the Pools the Val di Luce.

The jobs began in the summer of 1935 but, interrupted from according to world-wide conflict, they did not come more resumed.

The Val di Luce is today an important sciistico center: There are 6 systems of gone back for one hour potentiality of transport of beyond 10.000 pers. /h thanks to 3 four-seater seggiovie (Three Powers, Mount Gomito and Sprella), 1 seggiovia triposto (Step of Hannibal) and to 2 sciovie (Abetina and Jolly). Km of tracks perfectly struck (thanks to a park has beyond 14 blots some supplied from 6 forerunner of which 3 with winch) and of every degree of difficulty, succeeding therefore to satisfy the requirements of all the skiers.