The village

Bezzecca, situated in the centre of Valle di Ledro, is certainly the most famous village because its history is connected to the battle between the illustrious Garibaldi with the Austrians.

The Latin origin of the name is "bis secta" which means "cut in two parts". The river "Assat" cut the little village in two districts: "Villa" on the right side and "Luta" on the left side. Bezzecca is famous for being the scene of the battle between the Italian army under Garibaldi and the Austrian army in 1866 during the Third Indipendence War. There is an interesting park on the S. Stefano hill where the Path of Peace winds through the trenches.
During WWI, Bezzecca became again an important strategic point and in that period soldiers bored tunnels and built many trenches on the hill. Today they are evidence of the two wars, and make St. Stefano hill a place of memory.
Until 1860 the church of the village was the one on the hill, dedicated to St. Stefano and Lorenzo and built in the sixteenth century. Today the main church is the one in Garibaldi Square built in the nineteenth century to replace the other one, whiwh was to small for the population

Out of the village, on the old road to Tiarno di Sotto there is another interesting little church. "S. Lucia in pratis" of the 15th century has been completely restored in 1998 and there have been discovered very old frescoes.