Near the capital of South Tyrol, the Wine Road crosses the second largest wine growing area of the region, the Valle Isarco valley
With more than 100,000 inhabitants, the city of Bolzano is an important centre in the Alpine area. Bolzano is the administrative centre of politics of the South Tyrolean autonomy, but also an economic and cultural centre. With the founding of the Free University of Bolzano in the 1990s, the city has also established itself as a trilingual centre of education and research, consolidating its role as a link between the German and Italian linguistic and cultural spheres.
Bolzano counts five districts and the mountain hamlet of Colle (1,100 m a.s.l.), which also makes part of the municipality of Bolzano. In the following articles you find information about the city districts and their history:
