Trentino and the South Tyrol

  • STILL RECOMMENDED, Hotel Elephant

    STILL RECOMMENDED, Hotel Elephant

    In the first, 1924, edition of Blue Guide Northern Italy, one of the Blue Guides best-selling titles over the 100 years that followed, the Hotel Elephant was the recommended hotel in Brixen Bressanone. Brixen is a beautiful gothic and baroque town in South Tyrol, the inn has been a welcoming guests…

  • a school of artists in the south tyrol

    a school of artists in the south tyrol

    A school of artists in the South Tyrol valley of the Pustertal. where is this valley? The valley is the Pustertal (in Italian, Val Pusteria). It lies in the South Tyrol (Alto Adige) region of Northern Italy, on the border of Italy and Austria. At first sight, it seems remote,…

  • Alessandro Vittoria: Most rare in marble portraits

    Alessandro Vittoria: Most rare in marble portraits

    In his famous Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari describes the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria as ‘most rare in marble portraits’. From humble beginnings, Vittoria (1525–1608) went on to become one of the greatest Italian sculptors of his age. who was alessandro vittoria? Vittoria was born in Trento, a city in…

  • The Blessed Josef Mayr-Nusser: Anti Nazi hero

    The Blessed Josef Mayr-Nusser: Anti Nazi hero

    The life of Josef Mayr-Nusser (1910-1945) is a chapter in the complicated story of South Tyrol.  Born in Bolzano Bozen, he was an active German speaking Catholic, contributor to the subversive young Catholic newssheet Tiroler Jugendwacht (subversive because the Italian government banned use of the German word Jugendwacht – literally…

  • Bolzano Bozen – Italian or German?

    Bolzano Bozen – Italian or German?

    Historically Bolzano was a semi-independent merchant city state and sometimes part of the Trento prince-bishopric, with its allegiance more to the (Germanic, Habsburg) Holy Roman Empire – in the person of the (Austrian) counts of Tyrol – across the Alps to the north than to the papacy and principalities and…

  • Letter from Italy

    Virtual museum tours: some of the best For professional guides in Italy this is, of course, a period in which they suddenly find themselves without work. However many museums, while closed to the public, have made it possible not only to consult their catalogues or browse the collections online but…

  • Sustainable living in Bolzano

    Sustainable living in Bolzano

    The Municipality of Bolzano moved to create Casa Nova in 2002, in response to growing demand for affordable housing. The new mixed-use district was to provide exemplary quality of life despite the high building density (3.5 m³/m² for a total of 350,000 m³). An important goal was to respect the…

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