Region
Trentino-Alto Adige
The towns
33 of 33 towns
33 of 33 towns
Andalo
Province: Trento
An alpine pass at 1,042 meters on the Paganella plateau, with a mountain range on one side and a periodic lake that empties and refills.
Baselga di Pinè
Province: Trento
The main town of the Piné plateau at 964 meters, with a Blue Flag lake, Italy's outdoor speed skating oval and a baroque Marian sanctuary.
Bleggio Superiore
Province: Trento
A scattered Giudicarie commune whose hilltop hamlet of Rango holds the Christmas markets, with a Slow Food walnut grown on the terraces below.
Bondone
Province: Trento
A two-village commune above Lake Idro at the Lombard border, with a Lodron castle on the cliff between them.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento
The valley town built on both banks of the Brenta in lower Valsugana, with a hilltop castle above and a contemporary art project in the side valley.
Brentonico
Province: Trento
The Monte Baldo plateau town between Lake Garda and the Vallagarina, with chestnut groves, war trenches and a botanical garden.
Bressanone
Province: Bolzano
The oldest town in Tyrol, a prince-bishopric for eight centuries at the confluence of the Eisack and Rienz, below the Plose ridge.
Brunico
Province: 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.
Caldes
Province: Trento
A scattered commune on the Noce, six hamlets gathered around a thirteenth-century tower-house castle that once belonged to the Thun family.
Canazei
Province: Trento
A Ladin village at 1,465 meters at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
Cavalese
Province: Trento
The capital of the valley at 1,000 meters, seat of the Magnifica Comunità and its open-air parliament, the Banco della Reson.
Corvara in Badia
Province: Bolzano
The Ladin center of Alta Badia at 1,568 meters, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
Fortezza
Province: Bolzano
A small South-Tyrolean village in the Isarco valley, at the point where the Pusteria line branches off the main Brenner railway corridor.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano
A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 933 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
Innichen
Province: Bolzano
An Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 meters on the Austrian border, built around a Romanesque church and facing the Dolomites to the south.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano
South Tyrolean village on a shelf below the Sciliar, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
Lavarone
Province: Trento
A Cimbrian plateau at 1,172 meters above the Val d'Astico, with a karst lake and a wooded fort line.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento
A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 meters, built on arsenic-iron thermal waters.
Luserna
Province: Trento
A Cimbrian island at 1,333 meters on the Alpe Cimbra plateau, the last village in Italy where the medieval Bavarian dialect is still spoken at home.
Meran
Province: 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.
Moena
Province: Trento
The largest village in the valley, Ladin-speaking, dressed in Ottoman costume for three days every August.
Molveno
Province: Trento
The village at the north end of a deep blue alpine lake, with a pale limestone range rising straight out of the water.
Ossana
Province: Trento
A small borgo at the foot of a 25-meter stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Pieve Tesino
Province: Trento
A plateau village in eastern Trentino, birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, shaped by centuries of families who left to trade prints across Europe.
Pinzolo
Province: Trento
The Val Rendena base town at 770 meters, set between the Adamello-Presanella massif and the Dolomites to the east.
Riva del Garda
Province: Trento
The north tip of the lake at 73 meters, where the Trentino mountains close in on the water and a Habsburg port town stayed bilingual into the twentieth century.
Rovereto
Province: Trento
The Vallagarina city at 204 meters where a Venetian-Austrian castle holds the Italian war museum and a domed contemporary art museum holds Italy's largest collection of its kind in the Alps.
San Pancrazio
Province: 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.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano
A Ladin wood-carving town at 1,236 meters, set between two high plateaus.
Sterzing
Province: 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.
Tenno
Province: Trento
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.
Toblach
Province: Bolzano
The Val Pusteria gateway where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
Trento
Province: Trento
The Alpine capital on the Adige at 194 meters, where the Council that reshaped the Catholic Church met in a castle still standing above the city.
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