17 Sights in Bolzano - Bozen, Italy (with Map and Images)

The Victory Monument is a monument in Bolzano, northernmost Italy, erected on the personal orders of Benito Mussolini in South Tyrol, which had been annexed from Austria after World War I. The 19 metre wide Victory Gate was designed by architect Marcello Piacentini and substituted the former Austrian Kaiserjäger monument, torn down in 1926–27. Its construction in Fascist style, displaying lictorial pillars, was dedicated to the "Martyrs of World War I".

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The Walther monument in Bolzano was created in 1889 by Heinrich Natter and is dedicated to Walther von der Vogelweide. It is located on the central Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Platz. The statue of Walther, executed in Lasa marble, stands on a fountain that serves as a pedestal.

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Monte Pozza is a mountain in the Alps 1,615 m high, which borders the city of Bolzano to the south. Most of the inhabitants of the South Tyrolean capital improperly call the entire mountain Colle: the latter geographical name actually applies only to two places located on the northern slope of the mountain itself, Colle dei Signori (Herrenkohlern) and Colle di Villa (Bauernkohlern).

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Treuenstein Castle is a medieval fortification on the outskirts of Bolzano in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Located in the borough of Gries, it was built between 1276 and 1278 by Meinhard, Count of Tyrol for his trusted vassal Friedrich, a burgher from Bolzano.

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The South Tyrol Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in the Bindergasse in Bolzano. The museum, which opened in 1997, is one of the South Tyrolean provincial museums in public hands. The museum is housed in the sovereign office of Emperor Maximilian I in Bolzano's old town. As the only provincial museum of natural history, it is the central documentation and collection point for natural history objects in South Tyrol.

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Greifenstein Castle, also known as Pig Castle, is a fortified complex reduced to ruins that stands on a rocky spur with sheer walls above Terlano, a neighboring municipality of Bolzano. Neuhaus Castle, the other castle in the area, is part of the municipality of San Genesio.

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The Bolzano City Museum located in Bolzano is a museum of provincial importance. It is the oldest museum in today's South Tyrol and is managed by the Department of Culture of the municipal administration. Since 2003 it has been partially closed for a long restoration work that also includes its expansion, which has never begun; only the mezzanine floor periodically hosts exhibitions.

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The cathedral Maria Himmelfahrt is the parish church of the South Tyrolean capital Bolzano and cathedral of the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen. While the Bishop has resided in Bozen since 1964, the cathedra and the cathedral chapter remain in Brixen. Maria Himmelfahrt is therefore with Brixen Cathedral co-cathedral of the diocese.

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The Evangelical Church of Christ in Bolzano-Gries is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Bolzano. It has about 500 registered members and stretches from the Brenner Pass to Lake Garda; the western part of this area includes the neighbouring parish of Merano.

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St. Johann im Dorf is a Roman Catholic church in St. Johann, a district of Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol. It lies in the former rural community of Zwölfmalgreien north of the old town in St.-Johann-Gasse. It has been a listed building since 1977.

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St. Oswald was a church on the Oswaldweg in Bolzano, dedicated to St. Oswald of Northumbria. The late Romanesque east tower church was first mentioned in 1288, reconsecrated in 1323 and 1405 after damage by landslides and referred to as "sant Oswalt pey Poczen" in 1412. The church consecration festival was celebrated on the anniversary of St. Oswald's death on 5 August. During the bombing of Bolzano in the Second World War, the church was destroyed by an American aerial bomb on December 2, 1943. Only the foundation walls have been preserved. Since 1951, these have been listed as historical monuments.

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The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church in Bolzano, South Tyrol. It is located at Rauschertorgasse 6 in the Zentrum-Bozner Boden-Rentsch district and is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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The Mercantile Museum houses the economic history of Bolzano with collections of documents, paintings and furnishings from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is located in the mercantile building, the former seat of the mercantile magistrate built in 1635, between Laubengasse and Silbergasse. After its dissolution, the building was the seat of the Bolzano Chamber of Commerce from 1851 to 1979.

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The Cathedral Treasury of Bolzano in the Old Provost's Office of the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Bolzano on the Pfarrplatz is a museum of sacred art founded in 2007. Its collections are among the most extensive Baroque church inventories in the Tyrolean region.

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Castel Sant'Antonio or also Castel Klebenstein is a castle located in Bolzano, at the entrance to the Val Sarentino, near the St. Anthony bridge (St.-Antons-Brücke), over the Talvera stream, and not far from Runkelstein Castle.

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Sigmundskron Castle is an extensive castle and set of fortifications near Bolzano in South Tyrol. Today its ruins house the fourth mountain museum established by the South Tyrolean mountaineer, Reinhold Messner. On 9 June 2006 the MMM was opened in this fortified castle dating to the Late Middle Ages.

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The Old Parish Church of Gries was until 1788 the parish church of the formerly independent municipality of Gries, which today forms part of the Gries-San Quirino district of Bolzano, South Tyrol (Italy). The Late Gothic church contains several precious works of art.

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