Discover Bolzano

Bolzano sits at about 260 metres in a basin where the Talvera and the Isarco meet before joining the Adige, with roughly a hundred and seven thousand inhabitants.

It is the capital of the autonomous province of South Tyrol, which is majority German-speaking; the city itself is the exception, with an Italian-speaking majority, and everything official appears in both languages.

The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology holds Ötzi, the Copper Age man found in a melting glacier in 1991, and is the most visited museum in the region by a wide margin.

The Portici, the arcaded street laid out around 1180, is still the commercial spine of the old town.

Piazza Walther is the city's living room, with the Gothic cathedral and its patterned tiled roof on one side.

Above the city, Castel Roncolo holds the largest surviving cycle of secular medieval frescoes anywhere.