Day trips
Day trips from Bolzano
11 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Meran is 29 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
Meran
Province: Bolzano · 324 m
29 minutes from Bolzano. A Habsburg spa city at 324 metres on the Passer river, palm-lined promenades below 3,000-metre peaks and the gardens where Empress Sissi spent her winters.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano · 1,236 m
43 minutes from Bolzano. A Ladin wood-carving town at 1,236 metres, set between two high plateaus.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano · 1,060 m
44 minutes from Bolzano. South Tyrolean village on a shelf below the Sciliar, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
San Pancrazio
Province: Bolzano · 736 m
50 minutes from Bolzano. A South-Tyrolean village at 736 metres on the entrance of the Ultental/Val d'Ultimo, German-speaking St. Pankraz, the gateway to one of the most isolated alpine valleys in the Adige basin and the centuries-old larch forests of the Lahnerlärchen.
Bressanone
Province: Bolzano · 560 m
51 minutes from Bolzano. The oldest town in Tyrol, a prince-bishopric for eight centuries at the confluence of the Eisack and Rienz, below the Plose ridge.
Moena
Province: Trento · 1,184 m
65 minutes from Bolzano. The largest village in the valley, Ladin-speaking, dressed in Ottoman costume for three days every August.
Caldes
Province: Trento · 698 m
68 minutes from Bolzano. A scattered commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Sterzing
Province: Bolzano · 948 m
68 minutes from Bolzano. A bilingual mining town at 948 metres on the Brenner road, where a 46-metre tower built in 1472 still divides the old town from the new.
Brunico
Province: Bolzano · 838 m
69 minutes from Bolzano. The largest town of the Pustertal at 838 metres, built around the prince-bishop's castle and the Stadtgasse, with Plan de Corones rising above the valley.
Corvara in Badia
Province: Bolzano · 1,568 m
75 minutes from Bolzano. The Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
Canazei
Province: Trento · 1,465 m
86 minutes from Bolzano. A Ladin village at 1,465 metres at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
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Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.