Ski Area
Ski Area in Trentino-South Tyrol
19 towns
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol holds 19 Ski Area sites inside our catalogue. They cluster in the Trento and Bolzano/Bozen provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Levico Terme, Trento, and Brentonico. 16 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
Levico Terme
Province: Trento · 520 m
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.
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.
Brentonico
Province: Trento · 692 m
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.
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.
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.
Cavalese
Province: Trento · 1,000 m
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 · 1,568 m
The Ladin centre of Alta Badia at 1,568 metres, at the foot of the Sassongher, on the four-pass Sellaronda ski circuit.
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.
Lavarone
Province: Trento · 1,172 m
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.
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.
Moena
Province: Trento · 1,184 m
The largest village in Val di Fassa, Ladin-speaking, dressed in Ottoman costume for three days every August.
Molveno
Province: Trento · 864 m
The village at the north end of a deep blue alpine lake, with the Brenta Dolomites rising straight out of the water.
Toblach
Province: Bolzano · 1,256 m
The Val Pusteria gateway to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo, where Mahler wrote his last three symphonies in a cabin behind town.
Andalo
Province: Trento · 1,042 m
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.
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.
Canazei
Province: Trento · 1,465 m
A Ladin village at 1,465 metres at the head of Val di Fassa, ringed by Marmolada, Sella and Sassolungo and the Sellaronda circuit.
Innichen
Province: Bolzano · 1,175 m
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.
Pinzolo
Province: Trento · 770 m
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.
St. Ulrich
Province: Bolzano · 1,236 m
The Ladin capital of Val Gardena, a wood-carving town at 1,236 metres between Seceda and the Alpe di Siusi.
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Putignano
Province: Bari
Europe's longest-running carnival — Putignano Carnevale has run continuously since 1394, with 631 years of cartapesta papier-mâché floats, a 26,000-resident Murgia town on the Bari–Lecce plateau, and the Grotta del Trullo karst cave inside the centro.
Pistoia
Province: Pistoia
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Tropea
Province: Vibo Valentia
Cliff town on a tufa headland over the Tyrrhenian Coast of the Gods, with a Norman monastery on a sea rock.
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.
Cantiano
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A border borgo at 374 meters under Monte Catria on the old Via Flaminia, known for the Good Friday Turba and the sour-cherry visciola harvest.