In the Parco Adamello there are splendid testimonies of the alpine rural architecture, some conservated till nowadays, that attest the use, but also the attention and respect that our ancestors dedicated to the territory. Unfortunately, many of the buildings didn't keep there extraordinary beauty, since the depopulation of the mountain led to a gradual abandonment of the traditional agricultural activity and in this way, to the degradation of this historic-cultural patrimony, which the Park is now trying to recover and make the most of it. In an agricultural economy, like the camunian one till some decades ago, the importance of cattle breeding and use of pastures, from the lower valley to the highest altitudes, is a given fact. The traditional agricultural activity developed on altitude plains during the several seasons of the year: to its service, several kind of rural buildings made with different aggregation techniques were built, testifying the great capacity to adapt structures to the demands of agricultural activity and to the technical characteristics of the building materials available.

The malghe (a kind of mountain barn)
The malghe are town propriety and are generally located above the limit of arboreal vegetation, beyond 1800 meters of altitude. The malga complex is usually made up of 3-4 buildings (Malga Lavedole):

• one great stable, low and longish, sometimes with partially opened porches to shelter the cattle in case of bad weather;
  
• one residence with a single floor used to work milk, shelter sheperds and in some case as a warehouse for the little hay produced on pastures;
  
• two small baitèi used to keep milk and shelter pigs.
  

Another typical and important element of the malga, particularly on the South area of the Park, is the (barech). It is an area near the building, fenced with a small and irregular stone wall, made to prevent cattle from getting away. The bàrech has a single entrance, from which cattle can reach this open area, where they are milked and left during the night and in case of bad weather.

The rural buildings at the middle of the mountain.
These are the most frequent and diffuse buildings on all the territory of the park: built to support intermediate pasture areas, the hay fields, used in Spring and Autumn, characterize the country landscape and are often indicated with the name "baite". The carrying structure is mostly made in stone, schists or granite, according to the resources available.

Usually, they are private property and are organized on two floors, the stable on the floor level, often with a basement, and the barn on the first; a part of this one is used as kitchen and dormitory.
There is also a place to make cheese and the drinking trough. In some cases the upper floor has some openings, padded with larches or chestnut tables disposed vertically. Such padding helps ventilation and therefore the drying of the hay. The external walls can have sacred images, framed by stones or inserted in small niches made on the perimeter walls. Other details that contribute to describe the typical features of these buildings:

• the mantle cover made with slabs of schistose stones (piöde) or using shingles (regular tablets in larch or chestnut wood);
  
• dry perimeter walls or with lime mortar, rarely plastered;
  
• lintels in ligneous or hard material;
  
• casement fixtures in natural wood, where present.

The single baite are sometimes placed side by side to baitelli ('l baitèl), used to shelter animals and to keep milk. These buildings are much smaller than baite and are among the few examples of rural buildings not to have endured consisting transformations or restructures during the years, thus resulting complete in their constructive features. The Baitello of Valmazzone is a splendid example, its cover was made with imposing granite slabs that make it one in its kind and of great architectonic interest.

The terraces
The terraces are another precious element that helps us understand how important agriculture was for the economy of the Vallecamonica. Important improving works and agrarian arrangement of the land, made to gain plain spaces from the sunny slopes in order to grow grapevine or cereals. Still today, it is possible to see the splendid and ordered linear walls, made with local stones and that characterize the agrarian landscape of the lower area of the slopes of the Park.