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Bolzano

Country
Italy
State
South Tyrol
City
Bolzano
Type of Location
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By Air

Different airlines provide flights from Bolzano Airport (IATA: BZO) to Rome, Vienna, Milan and other destinations.An international airport (airport Bolzano Dolomites) with daily connections to Milan and Rome, and charter flights during summer (Croatia, Sardinia, Calabria) and winter (England, Northern Germany: Berlin, Hannover and Dortmund) made by the airlines Air Alps, Welcome Air and Tyrolean Airways.

By Train

The city is also connected to the Italian railway system.Bolzano railway station, opened in 1859, forms part of the Brenner railway (Verona–Innsbruck), which is the main railway route between Italy and Germany.The station is also a junction of two branch lines, to Merano and Mals, respectively.

By Road

Bolzano is connected to the highway A22-E45 to Trento and Verona and to Innsbruck (Austria) and Munich (Germany).

Key places to visit
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Museum of Tourism, South Tyrol Museum of Natural Science, Sigmundskron, Messner Mountain Museum, Castel Flavon, Cathedral of Bolzano, Stable Theatre


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Places to Visit

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

Is based in Bolzano is the "home" of Otzi, the Iceman in Italy more known as the mummy of the Iceman.The museum welcomes visitors all year round and is one of the first of its kind in Italy.In addition to the mummy of the Iceman, the museum contains important collections from the area of South Tyrol.The show starts from the Paleolithic to end, ordered chronologically, with the High Middle Ages ( the Carolingian period ).Models, reconstructions, stereoscopic pictures, video and interactive multimedia stations allow you to take a look at the past of the southern Alps.Alongside the permanent exhibition in museum spaces successive temporary exhibitions, conventions and conferences.There are also numerous reconstructions of Roman settlements in the basin of the Adige Valley and finds in this area, testifying to the life of the inhabitants of South Tyrol in Roman times.The building, on the Central Museum, is located opposite the Museum. Originally it was the seat of the Imperial Austrian National Bank.From 1919 and until the nineties was the seat of the Bank of Italy.

Museum of Tourism

is a botanical garden and Museum.Are located in Merano ( BZ ), within Trauttmansdorff.Laid out over several rooms, explains the history of tourism in South Tyrol, also through numerous exposures.Through the halls is a walking route that begins in 1765 and ends in 2000.Id provincial administration bought Trauttmansdorff, now almost in ruins, in 1990.Long were the work of restoration in 2001 could be inaugurated the botanical garden and in 2003 the Touriseum.On average, botanic garden Touriseum accommodate 270,000 spectators per season, 67% of which come from Germany (the rest mostly from the Italy ).

South Tyrol Museum of Natural Science

The museum, spread over two floors, it tells the geological environment and natural South Tyrolean over an area of 1,000 m2.The space on the ground floor of 200 m2 is used for regular temporary exhibitions that are the main attraction of the museum.The museum is full of reconstructions and multimedia stations.Aquarium reef from 9,000 liters of the arch is the largest mountain and is of considerable interest.The museum is visited by more families as particularly attractive to children.The museum was opened in 1997 and is housed in the headquarters of the Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg in late Gothic style dating from the sixteenth century.

Sigmundskron

is located in the suburbs southwest of Bolzano on the right of South and is the headquarters of the museum circuit called Messner Mountain Museum wanted and designed by the famous South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who runs it.The museum was opened on 9 June 2006.The castle is an important symbol of autonomy in South Tyrol : in 1957 here was held the largest protest in the history of South Tyrol, led by Silvius Magnago.More than 30,000 gathered in the South Tyrol complex to protest the non-observance of the Paris Agreement of 1946 and ask for genuine autonomy for South Tyrol province, separated from the veto imposed by the Regional Trentino with the famous slogan Los von Trient," Away from Trent ".

Messner Mountain Museum

is a project conceived by the museum mountaineer Tyrolean Reinhold Messner.It is not only a museum but a museum circuit divided into five different locations throughout the Dolomites.The headquarters (The Magic Mountain - Der Zauberberg) is Sigmundskron at Bolzano.At the castle of Brunico (Bruneck Schloss) was opened last in the headquarters of the MMM.This site has been renamed from repeated that Tibet is composed of re poarole which means "mountain" and eg means "man".The exhibition is devoted, as of July 2, 2011, to the mountain peoples (Die Bergvolker), and is seen not only as a museum but also as a site where it can be exchanged between the different cultures of mountain regions around the world.

Castel Flavon

is a castle Medieval in South Tyrol, in the town of Bolzano.Dominates the district of Aslago.Probably built on the ruins of a castle Rhaetian, dates back to the early thirteenth century.First owners were the lords of Haselberg, precisely the original Haslach (Aslago).It then passed from hand to hand, until between 1475 and 1541 the lords of Fie (s Vols) not changed profoundly: this is basically the shape, three wings, where it is now known, and even artificial pond upstream of the castle dates back to their own initiative.The latest renovation, on the initiative of Toggenburg accounts of Bolzano, the current owners, was conducted between 2001 and 2002, and involved the entire building, with the restoration of the east and west wings and the restoration of the north wing.They also come to light traces of the fourteenth-century building, visible in the underground room.

Cathedral of Bolzano

is the parish church of the city of Bolzano, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, in German is called Maria Himmelfahrt Sun or Sun or even Bozner Propsteipfarrkirche Bozen.Since 1964 is also the headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone (created on 6 August 1964 ), the cathedral chapter is Bressanone, but the bishop lives in Bolzano .The Cathedral of Bressanone, therefore, the cathedral of the diocese, while that of Bolzano has the title of co-cathedral.

Stable Theatre

the main institution play in the Italian language of South Tyrol.The Repertory Theatre offers its performances in the home of the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.The Stable Theatre was established in 1950 with the aim to restore and rebuild the theater arts of war following the events of World War II.During the eighties the theater nearly closed, but the reliance on the artistic direction of Marco Bernardi, who still maintains, gives the establishment success. In 1992 the Teatro Stabile has obtained a permanent statute that sees the city of Bolzano and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano as founding members.In 1999 the city of Bolzano has a great new theater that allows the establishment of an adequate space to operate in its audience.The latest figures indicate an audience share of up to 120,000 units per season.

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