Borghi più belli d'Italia
Borghi più belli d'Italia in Trentino-South Tyrol
11 towns
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol carries 11 of the Borghi più belli d'Italia towns we cover. They cluster in the Trento and Bolzano/Bozen provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Tenno, Bondone, and Glurns. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Tenno
Province: Trento · 428 m
A hillside commune at 428 metres above Lake Garda, with a medieval stone hamlet, a turquoise lake, and the northernmost olive groves in Europe.
Bondone
Province: Trento · 720 m
A two-village commune above Lake Idro at the Lombard border, with a Lodron castle on the cliff and a Bandiera Blu shoreline below.
Glurns
Province: Bolzano · 907 m
The smallest city in South Tyrol at 937 inhabitants, ringed by intact sixteenth-century walls in the Val Venosta near the Swiss border.
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.
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.
Borgo Valsugana
Province: Trento · 380 m
The valley town built on both banks of the Brenta in lower Valsugana, with Castel Telvana above and Arte Sella in the side valley.
Caldes
Province: Trento · 698 m
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.
Kastelruth
Province: Bolzano · 1,060 m
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.
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.
Ossana
Province: Trento · 1,003 m
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 · 843 m
The birthplace of Alcide De Gasperi, founding father of the European Union, on a Trentino plateau of itinerant print-sellers and arboretum gardens.
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