Day trips
Day trips from Bolzano
14 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.
The towns
Meran
Province: Bolzano · 324 m
29 minutes from Bolzano. A Habsburg spa city at 324 meters on the Passer river, palm-lined promenades below 3,000-meter peaks and the gardens where Empress Sissi spent her winters.
Fortezza
Province: Bolzano · 750 m
41 minutes from Bolzano. A small South-Tyrolean village in the Isarco valley, at the point where the Pusteria line branches off the main Brenner railway corridor.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano · 1,236 m
43 minutes from Bolzano. A Ladin wood-carving town at 1,236 meters, 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.
Cavalese
Province: Trento · 1,000 m
48 minutes from Bolzano. The capital of the valley at 1,000 meters, seat of the Magnifica Comunità and its open-air parliament, the Banco della Reson.
San Pancrazio
Province: Bolzano · 736 m
50 minutes from Bolzano. A South-Tyrolean village at 736 meters 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.
Canazei
Province: Trento · 1,465 m
64 minutes from Bolzano. A Ladin village at 1,465 meters at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
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 meters on the Brenner road, where a 46-meter tower built in 1472 still divides the old town from the new.
Brunico
Province: Bolzano · 838 m
70 minutes from Bolzano. The largest town of the Pustertal at 838 meters, 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 center of Alta Badia at 1,568 meters, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano · 907 m
85 minutes from Bolzano. A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 933 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Pontedera
Province: Pisa
The Valdera's working capital on the Pisa–Florence line, where Piaggio turned a bombed aircraft plant into the birthplace of the Vespa in 1946.
San Quirico d'Orcia
Province: Siena
A walled stop on the Via Francigena at 409 meters in the UNESCO Val d'Orcia, where a twelfth-century Collegiata, a Renaissance garden and the Bagno Vignoni thermal pool sit within fifteen kilometers of each other.
Millesimo
Province: Savona
A fortified borgo at 429 meters, where Napoleon broke the Austro-Sardinian army in April 1796.
Torri del Benaco
Province: Verona
Lake Garda's east-shore castle town at 67 meters, with a ferry to Toscolano-Maderno and olive groves up to Albisano.
Castiglione di Garfagnana
Province: Lucca
A walled medieval town at 540 meters in the Garfagnana, the Lucca outpost that refused to submit to the Este and held the pass to San Pellegrino.