The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology is the home of the Ice Man, the 5300-year-old mummy discovered in the Similaun glacier. The mummy's presence has made this one of the most visited museums of its kind in the world. The exhibits are spread over an area of 1200 square meters (12916.6 square feet) and four floors. The museum presents the history of the Alto Adige, from the dawn of time to the early Middle Ages through original archaeological finds, models, holograms, videos, and audio guides. The mummy named Ötzi is located on the first floor in the bronze age section. He is surrounded by the story of his discovery and relative scientific and medical information. Some of the items found with Ötzi are displayed alongside him. Although the highlight of the visit will obviously be the mummy, visitors interested in archaeology will be pleasantly surprised by the quality and importance of the other finds exhibited here.
This is the nerve center of the city and is an obligatory stop for tourists, being the best place to start a trip around the old town. The square is closed to all traffic except buses and takes its name from the white marble monument (1889) in its center, this monument is dedicated to the medieval German poet Walther von der Vogelweide. Piazza Walther is also known as the city's 'drawing room' and is surrounded by all sorts of buildings and two of the best hotels in the city, the Greif and the Città. During the summer, the bars and cafes put tables and chairs outside. It is a lovely place to sit and watch the world go by. The Duomo is located just a few meters from the square and is the most important Gothic construction in the region. The bell tower is 65 meters tall and was built in the 16th century, while the cathedral itself, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, was begun in 1295 and completed at the beginning of the 16th Century.
The museum was founded in 1985 by a private organization in collaboration with the Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano. The museum makes every effort to make use of its location between the Italian and German cultural and linguistic areas. In 1991, the museum changed its name to Museion to highlight the fact that it is also involved with other forms of contemporary art apart from art collections and exhibitions. The museum has two floors, the ground floor (used for temporary exhibitions, offices, and library) and the basement (storage and workshops) inside the building, which was constructed in 1860 and used as a hospital for many years.
Renon Cableway in Bolzano, Italy has revolutionized travel with shorter travel times and frequent Gondolas. It is a fabulous mode of transport with a breathtaking view of the city and is very accessible through the historic downtown. Not just a convenient way of transport but it is also a popular tourist attraction.
The imposing structure of Maria Himmelfahrt is a parish cathedral that sits in the heart of the old town. Building work began in 1295 by Lombard masters in a Romanesque style and was continued in a Gothic style and completed during the first decades of the 15th Century. Its bell tower is 65 meters (213 feet) tall and has an imposing spire made of sandstone, the work of the Swabian architect and sculptor Hans Lutz von Schussenried between the years 1501 and 1519. Well worth seeing is the Romanesque portal with its arch supported by two columns, the rose window and the frescoes.
Located at Castle Sigmundskron, Messner Mountain Museum is neither intended as a mountaineering museum nor a museum featuring South Tyrol's mountains. It is, rather intended to show what effect a mountain has on people with respect to its enormity, natural habitat, and general influence on the common man. At Sigmundskron, visitors are guided on a tour explaining the history of the mountains based on pictures, sculptures, symbolic objects and mementos collected the world over on numerous expeditions. The white tower consisting of several floors is dedicated to the history of South Tyrol.
The Piazza dei Domeinicani is located 100 meters (330 feet) to the west of the Duomo. It was renovated in 1999 and is closed to all traffic. The square contains the church of the same name with its adjoining cloisters. It was built in 1270 and was one of the first Gothic buildings in the Alto Adige. The church is particularly important for its splendid rich frescoes by the Paduan Giottan school, dating back to the first half of the 14th Century. You should visit the cloisters which contain frescoes by Friedrich Pacher (1496). The Chiesa dei Cappuccini is located just to the south of this church and was built in the 17th Century. Piazza Domenicani suffers slightly from the competition with the nearby Piazza Walther and the continual comings and goings of buses in the latter square, and therefore is slightly less crowded. The Galleria Civica Comunale is located next to the Dominican cloisters, and hosts temporary exhibitions. The Conservatorio Monteverdi, one of the most important cultural and scholastic structures in the city, is located next to the square. Every August it hosts the prestigious international piano competition named after the composer Ferruccio Busoni.
The Rosengarten group is a part of the Dolomites of Northern Italy. Its highest peak is Kesselkogel at 3002 meters (9849 feet) and the other peaks include Rosengartenspitze, Vajolet and Laurinswand .The meaning of its name is rose garden, this being derived from the pink hue that dominates the mastiff. There is a legend of King Laurin and his beautiful rose garden surrounding this range. This dwarf king had kidnapped a beautiful princess and hid in his rose garden, thinking no one would ever find them. But the swaying roses gave him away. In his anger the king cursed the garden that no one would see the garden's beauty in the day or night. Thus it is only during the sunrise and sunset that the dolomites in the mountains seem to absorb and reflect the color.
Cuando hace buen tiempo, sobre su superficie se refleja el macizo montañoso del Catinaccio. En el dialecto regional también se le conoce como el lago del arco iris. Los juegos de color sobre el agua y la panorámica de montañas al fondo crean un escenario único del que ya disfrutaron la emperatriz Sissi y Winston Churchill. Alimentado por manantiales subterráneos y nieve derretida, el nivel del agua oscila continuamente; el nivel más alto se alcanza en primavera, con una profundidad de hasta 22 m.