Region
Trentino-South Tyrol
Trentino-South Tyrol's 33 towns in our catalogue split across the Trento, Bolzano, and Bolzano provinces; 11 carry the Borghi più belli d'Italia designation.
33 towns · highest: Corvara in Badia 1,568m · smallest: Luserna 267 people
33 of 33 towns
33 of 33 towns
Andalo
Province: Trento
An alpine pass at 1,042 metres on the Paganella plateau, with the Brenta Dolomites 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 metres, 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 and a Bandiera Blu shoreline below.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento
The valley town built on both banks of the Brenta in lower Valsugana, with Castel Telvana above and Arte Sella 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 of the Garden of Italy.
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 metres, built around the prince-bishop's castle and the Stadtgasse, with Plan de Corones rising above the valley.
Caldes
Province: Trento
A scattered Val di Sole 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 metres at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
Cavalese
Province: Trento
The capital of Val di Fiemme at 1,000 metres, seat of the Magnifica Comunità since 1111 and its open-air Banco della Reson parliament.
Corvara in Badia
Province: Bolzano
The Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
Fortezza
Province: Bolzano
A South-Tyrolean village in the Isarco valley anchored by Forte di Fortezza — the 19th-century Habsburg star fortress that gave the village its German name (Franzensfeste, for Emperor Francis I), one of the largest unconquered fortresses in the Alps.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano
The smallest city in South Tyrol at 937 inhabitants, ringed by intact sixteenth-century walls in the Val Venosta near the Swiss border.
Innichen
Province: Bolzano
An Alta Pusteria town at 1,175 metres on the Austrian border, with the most important Romanesque church in the Eastern Alps and the Drei Zinnen rising thirty kilometres south.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano
South Tyrolean gateway to the Alpe di Siusi at 1,060 metres, eighty-two-metre bell tower over the square, home of the Kastelruther Spatzen.
Lavarone
Province: Trento
A Cimbrian plateau at 1,172 metres above the Val d'Astico, with a karst lake, an Austro-Hungarian fort, and the woods where Freud walked.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento
A Habsburg spa town in the Valsugana at 520 metres, with arsenic-iron thermal waters, an English park and a Blue Flag lake at the edge of the centre.
Luserna
Province: Trento
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.
Meran
Province: 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.
Moena
Province: Trento
The largest village in Val di Fassa, 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 the Brenta Dolomites rising straight out of the water.
Ossana
Province: Trento
A small Val di Sole borgo at the foot of a 25-metre stone keep, with Christmas nativity scenes filling its streets every December.
Pieve Tesino
Province: Trento
The birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, founding father of the European Union, on a Trentino plateau of itinerant print-sellers and arboretum gardens.
Pinzolo
Province: Trento
The Val Rendena base town at 770 metres between the Adamello-Presanella and the Brenta Dolomites, with a fifteenth-century church wrapped in a Dance of Death fresco.
Riva del Garda
Province: Trento
The north tip of Lake Garda at 73 metres, 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 metres where a Venetian-Austrian castle holds the Italian war museum and a Mario Botta dome holds Italy's largest contemporary art collection.
San Pancrazio
Province: 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.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano
The Ladin capital of Val Gardena, a wood-carving town at 1,236 metres between Seceda and the Alpe di Siusi.
Sterzing
Province: 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.
Tenno
Province: Trento
A hillside commune at 428 metres above Lake Garda, with a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake, and the northernmost olive groves in Europe.
Toblach
Province: Bolzano
The Val Pusteria gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
Trento
Province: Trento
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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