Empress Sissi chose Merano for her cures, and the town never forgot her: the promenades bearing her name, the gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle — eighty botanical landscapes repeatedly voted among Europe's finest — and the new thermal baths by Matteo Thun continue the wellness-capital vocation the Habsburg nineteenth century tailored for it.
Beneath the medieval arcades, speck mingles with spritz and strudel with espresso; the Maia racecourse has run its steeplechase Grand Prix for a century. Cable cars climb to Merano 2000 and the farmstead valleys: the mountains begin where the promenade ends.
Near Merano
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