Without a car
Trentino-South Tyrol by train
13 towns
Towns in this region where we confirmed an active station. Check the timetable before you go: a station on the map is not the same as a useful service.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento · 380 m
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.
Bressanone
Province: Bolzano · 560 m
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 · 838 m
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.
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.
Fortezza
Province: Bolzano · 750 m
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 · 907 m
A ringed sixteenth-century circuit of walls encloses a city of 937 inhabitants near the Swiss border.
Innichen
Province: Bolzano · 1,175 m
An Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 metres on the Austrian border, built around a Romanesque church and facing the Dolomites to the south.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento · 520 m
A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 metres, built on arsenic-iron thermal waters.
Meran
Province: Bolzano · 324 m
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.
Rovereto
Province: Trento · 204 m
The Vallagarina city at 204 metres 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.
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.
Toblach
Province: Bolzano · 1,256 m
The Val Pusteria gateway where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
Trento
Province: Trento · 194 m
The Alpine capital on the Adige at 194 metres, where the Council that reshaped the Catholic Church met in a castle still standing above the city.
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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.