The Gran Bracun

History and legend

History and legend are sometimes closely interwoven, and this is especially so with the figure of the Gran Bracun, the nobleman Franz Wilhelm von Prack, who was brutally murdered in Corvara in 1582. The imagination of the inhabitants of the valley, however, turned him into a hero. In Gadertal/Val Badia, like in the legend of St George, it is said that the Gran Bracun valorously defeated the feared dragon which lived in a cave on Kreuzkofel/Sas dla Crusc from where it devoured people and animals not only in Gadertal/Val Badia but also in surrounding areas.