Instead of Merano
Instead of Merano: mountain towns and hill towns within 2 hours
Merano is a spa town with palms and a promenade, and it is where everyone stops when they want South Tyrol without going far.
The valleys around it, the Val Venosta, the Passiria, the Ultental, are the same mountains with the working farms still in them.
Mountain towns and hill towns in our catalogue within 2 hours of Merano by road, ranked by outside recognition. Merano itself and the other famous places are left out. 30 towns match; the 12 best-recognised are below.
Instead of Merano
Merano · 41,071 residents · Trentino-Alto Adige
- TennoTrento
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Merano
- 1h 43m by car
- Residents
- 2,002
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- Rocca PietoreBelluno
Mountain town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Merano
- 1h 58m by car
- Residents
- 1,149
- When to go
- Jun–Sep, Dec–Mar
- SterzingBolzano/Bozen
Mountain town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Merano
- 1h 17m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 6,915
- When to go
- May–Oct
- Levico TermeTrento
Hill town · Bandiera Arancione
- From Merano
- 1h 23m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,167
- When to go
- All year
- Baselga di PinèTrento
Mountain town · Borgo dei Borghi
- From Merano
- 1h 51m by car
- Residents
- 5,127
- When to go
- May–Oct
The 5 best-recognised of the 30 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Merano. More of them follow below.
Tenno
Province: Trento · 428 m
A hillside commune above Lake Garda where a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake and the northernmost olive groves in Europe sit within reach of each other.
Rocca Pietore
Province: Belluno · 1,143 m
An Agordino borgo at 1,143 meters under the Marmolada, where the Pettorina cuts a two-kilometer gorge through 100-meter rock walls.
Sterzing
Province: Bolzano · 948 m
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.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento · 520 m
A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 metres, built on arsenic-iron thermal waters.
Baselga di Pinè
Province: Trento · 964 m
The main town of the Piné plateau at 964 metres, with a Blue Flag lake, Italy's outdoor speed skating oval and a baroque Marian sanctuary.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano · 907 m
A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 937 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
Luserna
Province: Trento · 1,333 m
A Cimbrian island at 1,333 metres on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano · 1,060 m
South Tyrolean village on a shelf below the Sciliar, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
Ossana
Province: Trento · 1,003 m
A small borgo at the foot of a 25-metre stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Caldes
Province: Trento · 698 m
A scattered commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Bleggio Superiore
Province: Trento · 628 m
A scattered Giudicarie commune whose hilltop hamlet of Rango holds the Christmas markets, with a Slow Food walnut grown on the terraces below.
Bormio
Province: Sondrio · 1,225 m
An Alpine spa town at 1,225 meters where three high passes meet and Roman thermal water has fed the baths for two thousand years.
Drive times measured by road from Merano. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.