Must-see attractions in Trentino & South Tyrol

  • Val di Genova

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Northwest of Pinzolo is the entrance to the Val di Genova, renowned as one of the Alps' most beautiful valleys. It's great walking country, lined with a…

  • Schloss Trauttmansdorff Gardens

    Merano (Meran)

    You could give an entire day to these beautiful botanical gardens a little outside Merano (and they do suggest it). Exotic cacti and palms, fruit trees…

  • Castello del Buonconsiglio

    Trento

    Guarded by hulking fortifications, this massive edifice was home to Trento's bishop-princes until Napoleon's arrival in 1801. Enclosed within is the…

  • Museo Archeologico dell'Alto Adige

    Bolzano (Bozen)

    The star of the Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige is Ötzi, the Iceman, with almost the entire museum being given over to the Copper Age mummy. Kept in a…

  • MUSE

    Trento

    A stunning modernist architectural work, courtesy of Renzo Piano, houses this 21st-century science museum and cleverly echoes the local landscape…

  • Museo Ladin

    The Dolomites

    Atmospherically set in a castle 15km south of Brunico and full of folk treasures, this is the best of three museums in this region devoted to Ladin…

  • LUMEN Museum of Mountain Photography

    The Dolomites

    Anyone passionate about the mountains should make a beeline for this captivating museum, opened in 2018 at the summit of Kronplatz ski resort. The…

  • Museion

    Bolzano (Bozen)

    Bolzano's four-storey contemporary art space is housed in a huge multifaceted glass cube, a brave architectural surprise that beautifully vignettes the…

  • Chiesetta di San Giovanni in Ranui

    The Dolomites

    Sitting alone in a meadow below the gargantuan spiky peaks of the Odle mountain group, this tiny and almost impossibly picturesque onion-steepled church …

  • Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    This is northern Italy's, and the Alps', largest national park, spilling into the next-door region of Lombardy and bordering Switzerland's Parco Nazionale…

  • Castel Thun

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    This stunning Gothic castle, some of it dating to the 1250s, occupies a panoramic position and typifies the region's architectural style.

  • Messner Mountain Museum Kronplatz

    The Dolomites

    Mountaineer Reinhold Messner's sixth and final mountain museum also sadly happened to be one of the final projects of star architect Zaha Hadid before her…

  • Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    This wild and beautiful park encompasses more than 80 lakes and the vast Adamello glacier, which was once home to the Alps' only brown bears. Although…

  • Messner Mountain Museum Firmiano

    Bolzano (Bozen)

    The imposing Castel Firmiano, dating back to AD 945, is the centrepiece of mountaineer Reinhold Messner's six museums. Based around humankind's…

  • MondoMelinda

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    On Val di Non’s southern limits, the vast MondoMelinda fruit-processing facility invites you to dive into the Val di Non's apple-happy culture. In the…

  • Museo Diocesano Tridentino

    Trento

    Sitting alongside the duomo, this former bishop's residence dates from the 11th century. It now houses one of Italy's most important ecclesiastical…

  • Reschensee

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Just south of Reschenpass (Passo di Resia) and the Austrian border is the deep blue Reschensee, a result of 1950s dam projects. The drowned Romanesque…

  • BZ '18-'45

    Bolzano (Bozen)

    This dense but visually seductive museum explores Bolzano's turbulent interwar years via the history of the fascist Monument to Victory, where it is sited…

  • Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Those Futurists were never afraid of a spot of self-aggrandisement and local lad Fortunato Depero was no exception. This Depero-designed museum was first…

  • Messner Mountain Museum

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Located – quite literally – inside a hill, the unique Messner Mountain Museum Ortles articulates the theme of ‘ice’ with artistically presented exhibits…

  • Villa Margon

    Trento

    Built by a Venetian family as a summer house in the 1540s, this villa 7km southwest of Trento is one of Trentino's most beautiful historic sites. Frescoes…

  • Duomo

    Trento

    Once host to the Council of Trent, this dimly lit Romanesque cathedral displays fragments of medieval frescoes inside its transepts. Two colonnaded…

  • Schloss Tirol

    Merano (Meran)

    Clinging to a steep crag high above the Adige valley, the ancestral seat of the counts of Tyrol houses a dynamically curated museum of Tyrolean history,…

  • Casa Museo del Parco Orso

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Part of the larger Parco Faunistico, and with cute displays for kids, this is the place to see the 20-odd population of brown bears of the Parco Naturale…

  • Piazza del Duomo

    Trento

    Trento's heart is this busy yet intimate piazza, dominated, of course, by the duomo, but also host to the Fontana del Nettuno, a flashy late-baroque…

  • Messner Mountain Museum Ripa

    The Dolomites

    Brunico's 13th-century hilltop castle is the evocative setting for mountaineer Reinhold Messner's fifth 'Mountain Museum'. Opened in 2011, it documents…

  • Galleria Civica di Trento

    Trento

    This city gallery/project space is the Trento campus of the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto and focuses on 20th-century and…

  • Segheria Veneziana dei Bègoi

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    This working 18th-century 'Venetian sawmill', powered by the rushing waters of the Torrente Rabbiés and built according to a design reputedly conceived by…

  • Castel Roncolo

    Bolzano (Bozen)

    This stunningly located castle was built in 1237 but is renowned for its vivid 14th-century frescoes. These are particularly rare, with themes that are…

  • Schloss Tirol Bird Care Centre

    Merano (Meran)

    Just below Schloss Tirol's entrance, this wildlife rescue centre rehabilitates injured birds of prey. There is a collection of eagles, vultures, hawks,…

  • Kriegerfriedhof

    The Dolomites

    This pristinely maintained cemetery set in a forest on Kühbergl just behind the town has graves of soldiers from the nearby WWI front as well as a section…

  • Glorenza

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    A walled medieval town, Glorenza (Glurns) was once a kingpin in the region’s salt trade. Its pristine burgher houses, colonnaded shops, town gates,…

  • Dom

    The Dolomites

    The lofty two-spired baroque cathedral you see today was built on top of the AD 980 Gothic-Romanesque original in 1745. While the bishop decamped to…

  • Giardino Botanico Alpino

    Trento

    This is one of the oldest and largest gardens in the Alps; more than 2000 species of rare high-altitude plants are nurtured in this beautiful, fragile…

  • Diözesanmuseum

    The Dolomites

    This museum is far more interesting than most of its ilk, and its magnificent palazzo (mansion) home testament to Bressanone's once-important religious…

  • Museo Ladin de Fascia

    The Dolomites

    One of the Ladin valleys' fascinating cultural museums, this three-story structure in the village of Vigo di Fassa is packed with beautiful wood carvings…

  • Marienberg

    Trentino & South Tyrol

    Perched high above the village of Burgeis (Burgusio) at 1340m, the beautiful Benedictine monastery of Marienberg has a museum dedicated to its eight…

  • Kunst Meran

    Merano (Meran)

    Shows of high-profile international and regional artists are installed in this contemporary gallery, a thoughtful refiguring of a skinny medieval…

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