The Forcella Lavarela separates the Piz Lavarela near San Cassiano from the Piz Cunturines
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The 3,055-m high Piz Lavarela (Lavarela-Spitze in German) rises in the proximity of the Piz Conturines near San Cassiano in Val Badia. The two peaks with their impressive rock walls are separated by the Forcella Lavarela. The Piz Lavarela and the Piz Conturines can be conquered in a 7-hour hike via the Capanna Alpina, the passo Tadega and the forcella Lavarela.
The Piz Lavarela is also known as Piz de Lavarela, Lavarella or La Varela. Lavara, a very common pre-Roman place name in Val Badia, probably derives from the words rock, stone or debris.
In his famous book Atlas Tyrolensis from 1774, Peter Anich refers to the Piz Lavarela as Tamers Kofel which at the time was the name of an ancient farm in the area. Some decades later, in 1839, the writer Johann Jakob Staffler mentions the Piccola and Grande Varella in his atlas Tirol und Vorarlberg.
