Castel Firmiano
Sigismund's castle above the Adige, now Messner's main mountain museum.
Bolzano: 5 places to start with
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Museums Ötzi – Archaeology Museum The home of Ötzi, Europe's oldest natural mummy who lived over 5,100 years ago, located in central Bolzano. -
Museums Museo archeologico dell'Alto Adige Ötzi's home: the Iceman at six degrees below zero, with his copper axe and his hay-stuffed shoes. -
Squares Monumento alla Vittoria Piacentini's fascist arch in Bolzano and the exhibition in its crypt that explains it. -
Museums Museion The glass and aluminium cube on the Talvera, its façades turning into screens at night. -
Churches Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta Bolzano's lozenged roof, and three older churches beneath its floor.
33 places covered in Bolzano Grouped by type, most important first.
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Castles, palaces and villas
13Castel Rafenstein
Castle ruins above the Talvera gorge, where Marx Sittich von Wolkenstein wrote his description of Tyrol.
Torre Druso
Cylindrical tower in Gries, the surviving keep of the Treuenstein castle, with swallowtail merlons.
Villa Bittner
Heimatstil villa of 1896 at Colle di Villa, holiday house of the architect Johann Bittner, protected since 1998.
Castel Fingeller
Ruin of a castle on the road from Bolzano to Sarentino, with a main wall with arrow slits and debated origins.
Castel Haselburg
Medieval castle above Aslago, rebuilt with three wings by the lords of Fiè in 1475-1541, with 16th-century frescoes.
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Castel Kampenn
Medieval castle near Bolzano, with a 14th-century keep, a Renaissance palace and a chapel; a private residence.
Castel Weinegg
Remains of a castle on the slopes of the Virgolo, of the lords of Weineck, destroyed in 1292 and never rebuilt.
Palazzo Widmann
Neo-Renaissance palace of 1882-1885 by Sebastian Altmann, since 1955 the seat of Bolzano's provincial government.
Castel Rendelstein
Small manor of 1237 along the Talvera, later an inn and private homes; its tower lost two floors in 1859.
Palazzo Gerstburg
Renaissance palace in Bolzano with a chapel of 1495 and a hall of the Aurora frescoed by Martin Knoller, now a court.
Villa Defregger
Historicist villa of 1879 by Sebastian Altmann for the painter Franz Defregger, with a protected turret and garden.
Villa Zeltnerheim
Historicist villa of 1893 by Adam Dietz at Gries, also known as Grünwald and Boscoverde, protected since 1982.
Churches and places of worship
11Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta ★
Bolzano's lozenged roof, and three older churches beneath its floor.
Chiesa dei Domenicani
Bolzano's Gothic church with Giottesque frescoes brought from Padua.
Abbazia di Muri-Gries
Swiss Benedictine abbey in the heart of Gries, with a Romanesque tower, a nativity museum and a Lagrein winery.
Chiesa di Santa Maddalena
13th-century Romanesque church at Rencio, with frescoes of the Passion and the life of the Magdalene.
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore
Church in central Bolzano, built in 1897-1899 to a design by Johann Bittner, with a façade mosaic of 1910.
Chiesa della Beata Vergine Maria
Gothic church of Gries with a carved altarpiece by Michael Pacher (1471-1475) and a Romanesque crucifix of about 1200.
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Chiesa dell'Ordine Teutonico
Gothic church of the Teutonic knights in via Weggenstein, of 1392, with a Knoller altarpiece and a rebuilt tower.
Chiesa di San Giovanni in Villa
Small Romanesque church in Dorf-Villa, first named in 1180, with 14th-century frescoes.
Chiesa di San Martino a Campiglio
Small Romanesque church at Campiglio, first named in 1180, with 15th-century Bolzano frescoes.
Chiesa di San Vigilio al Virgolo
Deconsecrated church on the slopes of the Virgolo, former chapel of Castel Weinegg, with frescoes of about 1390.
Convento dei Francescani
Franciscan friary of 1221 in central Bolzano, with a Gothic church, a Hans Klocker altarpiece and frescoed cloisters.
Museums, theatres and collections
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Ötzi – Archaeology Museum ★
The home of Ötzi, Europe's oldest natural mummy who lived over 5,100 years ago, located in central Bolzano.
Museo archeologico dell'Alto Adige ★
Ötzi's home: the Iceman at six degrees below zero, with his copper axe and his hay-stuffed shoes.
Museion ★
The glass and aluminium cube on the Talvera, its façades turning into screens at night.
Museo di scienze naturali dell'Alto Adige
Bolzano museum of the geology and habitats of South Tyrol, with the largest coral reef aquarium in the Alps.
Museo Mercantile
Museum of Bolzano's economic history in the Palazzo Mercantile of 1708-1716, seat of the fairs tribunal.
Messner Mountain Museum Firmian
First site of Reinhold Messner's museum circuit, within the walls of Castel Firmiano above Bolzano.
Squares, fountains and monuments
3Monumento alla Vittoria ★
Piacentini's fascist arch in Bolzano and the exhibition in its crypt that explains it.
Fontana delle Rane
Monumental fountain of 1930 in front of Bolzano station, with bronze frogs spraying jets of water.
Cimitero militare austro-ungarico di Bolzano
The oldest military cemetery in the province of Bolzano, from 1874, with a Neo-Romanesque chapel.
Tours, tickets and experiences
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