Kirche St. Vigilius (Vigiljoch)
St. Vigilius
site
46.6364060
11.0930160
The little church at 1,793 metres on the Vigiljoch, reached on foot from the cable car — the ridge walk's turning point.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/de/region-lana/natur-kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/kirchen-kloester/rid-2D1A8BF1F1A540DCAD5D7413877095A1-p-sankt-vigilius-kirche.html
Schnatterpeck-Altar (Pfarrkirche Niederlana)
Schnatterpeck-Altar
site
46.6001520
11.1628440
Hans Schnatterpeck's winged altar of 1503–11 in the parish church at Niederlana — the largest late-Gothic altar in the Alps.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/de/region-lana/natur-kultur/sehenswuerdigkeiten/rid-A822B16A666A4FAEABB93648468E87C2-p-pfarrkirche-maria-himmelfahrt-mit-dem-schnatterpeck-altar.html
Schloss Runkelstein / Castel Roncolo
Runkelstein
site
46.5175615
11.3590157
The castle with pictures: the largest surviving secular fresco cycle of the Middle Ages, painted around 1400 for a merchant family buying its way into chivalry.
https://www.runkelstein.info
Museion
Museion
site
46.4973509
11.3486892
One of Italy's most serious contemporary collections, in a translucent glass cube on the Talvera, in the city least expected to hold it.
https://www.museion.it
Siegesdenkmal Bozen
Siegesdenkmal
site
46.5005120
11.3450150
Piacentini's 1928 triumphal arch, and beneath it the free exhibition that explains, without flinching, why this city has two names for everything.
https://www.siegesdenkmal.com
Dom Maria Himmelfahrt (Bozen)
Dom Bozen
site
46.4975390
11.3539360
The cathedral on Waltherplatz under its glazed green-and-yellow roof, filigree spire above, fourteenth-century frescoes inside.
https://www.dompfarre.bz.it
Bozner Lauben
Bozner Lauben
site
46.4996280
11.3544180
Six hundred metres of Gothic merchant houses trading continuously since the Middle Ages, from the town hall square to the fruit market.
https://www.bolzano-bozen.it
Karersee / Lago di Carezza
Karersee
site
46.4093018
11.5751000
The rainbow lake under the Latemar wall — a coach stop by mid-morning, and the private jetty of whoever walks down before breakfast.
https://eggental.com/en/dolomites_nature/lake-carezza
GEOPARC Bletterbach
Bletterbach
site
46.3663980
11.4068990
The UNESCO canyon at Aldein where the Dolomites lie open in cross-section — three hours through the bottom of deep time, helmets provided.
https://www.bletterbach.info
Kellerei Kaltern
Kellerei Kaltern
site
46.4211300
11.2524460
The cooperative of over five hundred growers above the lake, pouring the definitive range of the lake's own wine.
https://www.kellereikaltern.com
Südtiroler Weinmuseum Kaltern
Weinmuseum
site
46.4129080
11.2462580
Two thousand years of South Tyrolean viticulture in half an hour, told in the old bishop's cellar under 1693 vaulting.
https://www.weinmuseum.it
Therme Meran
Therme Meran
site
46.6692515
11.1606288
Matteo Thun's glass thermal hall in the middle of town — the nineteenth-century cure, updated for this century.
https://www.termemerano.it
Brunnenburg (Ezra-Pound-Museum)
Brunnenburg
site
46.6921358
11.1482048
The castle below Schloss Tirol where Ezra Pound lived after St. Elizabeths — the Cantos upstairs, ploughs and flails below.
https://www.brunnenburg.net
Meraner Lauben
Meraner Lauben
site
46.6716890
11.1622230
Four hundred metres of medieval arcade between Kornplatz and Pfarrplatz — the evening passeggiata, taken under vaults.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it
Kurhaus Meran
Kurhaus
site
46.6704292
11.1629543
The Jugendstil salon on the Passer promenade, built between 1874 and 1914, where the spa town's self-image is stored.
https://www.kurhaus.it
Adolf-Munkel-Weg (Parkplatz Zans)
Adolf-Munkel-Weg
site
46.6357170
11.7655310
The car park at the head of Val di Funes, where the Adolf Munkel trail sets off beneath two thousand metres of Odle rock.
https://www.odlesdolomites.com
Kronplatz-Seilbahn (Talstation Reischach)
Kronplatz-Seilbahn
site
46.7726460
11.9418870
The morning gondola out of Riscone, ten minutes from Bruneck, lifting you to the Kronplatz summit and its three museums in one ride.
https://www.kronplatz.com
Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare
Dalle Nogare
site
46.5158958
11.3521766
ChIJ3eFrfF-egkcRJHLsigxH36o
Antonio Dalle Nogare's collection of contemporary art in a house on the edge of Bozen, open to visitors on Saturdays.
https://www.fondazioneantoniodallenogare.com/
Kunst Meran
Kunst Meran
site
46.6717048
11.1624706
The art house in the arcades of Meran, contemporary exhibitions behind a medieval facade.
http://www.kunstmeranoarte.org/
Frauenmuseum
Frauenmuseum
site
46.6725187
11.158825
The women's museum on the Meinhardstraße in Meran, clothing, objects and the history of women's lives over two centuries.
http://www.museia.it/
Rasciesa (Raschötz)
Rasciesa
site
46.6034604
11.663277
The high plateau above St. Ulrich, a long meadow ridge reached by the funicular, with the Geisler opposite.
https://www.resciesa.com/
Erdpyramiden Oberbozen
Erdpyramiden
site
46.5191481
11.4013671
ChIJ7d2YuPefgkcRSfdAqDQNd8s
Glacial moraine clay eroded into these earth columns, each capped by a boulder that shields it from rain; the Ritten has three groups, at Oberbozen, Lengmoos and Unterinn.
https://www.ritten.com/en/1201-earth-pyramids
Rittner Seilbahn (Talstation)
Rittner Seilbahn
site
46.499963
11.3641448
ChIJ5RAgGKGfgkcRYbBEV1pyL0s
Leitner's three-cable gondola opened in 2009 and climbs 950 metres from Rittner Straße in Bolzano up to Oberbozen in twelve minutes—cabins hold 35 and leave every few minutes.
https://www.sta.bz.it/de/eisenbahnen-seilbahnen/rittner-seilbahn/
Obstmarkt
Obstmarkt
site
46.4996198
11.3525282
ChIJzQttknuegkcRkkyBAQZBrTI
Bolzano's fruit and vegetable market has run on this square since 1437, open Monday to Friday until 7pm and Saturday mornings—the fountain locals call the Gabelwirt anchors it.
https://www.bolzano-bozen.it/it/strade-e-piazze-storiche/piazza-delle-erbe.html
Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum (Ötzi)
Ötzi Museum
site
46.4998589
11.3495538
ChIJ5YXGSHyegkcRsGPt8pClcrk
The 5,300-year-old Iceman has been on show here since 1998, viewed through a small window into his cold cell, alongside his copper axe and clothing—book a time slot ahead.
https://www.iceman.it
Weingut Alois Lageder
Alois Lageder
site
46.2881958
11.2099521
ChIJBViFvUyHgkcR6iof-GZwnmA
Six generations of the Lageder family have made wine here since 1823, now biodynamically across every vineyard—stop at their Paradeis osteria in Magrè for a tasting and lunch.
https://aloislageder.eu
St. Jakob in Kastelaz
St. Jakob in Kastelaz
site
46.3443867
11.2417337
ChIJP0sjGk6BgkcR0Bo-bqPz70M
A small Romanesque church on the hill above Tramin whose apse frieze of around 1215 is crowded with hybrid beasts below the apostles—fifteen minutes on foot from the village.
https://www.stiegenzumhimmel.it/en/alpine-road-of-romanesque-art/cultural-sites/10-st-jakob-kirche.html
Tenuta J. Hofstätter
Hofstätter
site
46.3415821
11.2396048
ChIJ2xapnVGBgkcR5DAQBjKE-h0
Founded in 1907 by a blacksmith and an innkeeper on Tramin's main square, now run by Martin Foradori—their Barthenau Vigna S. Urbano was Alto Adige's first single-vineyard wine.
https://www.hofstatter.com/
Elena Walch
Elena Walch
site
46.338451
11.2384532
ChIJIxi0G06BgkcRwqwfRGu5Q0M
Elena Walch trained as an architect before marrying into this Tramin wine family; her daughters Julia and Karoline now run it, with the 63-percent Vigna Kastelaz slope just above the village.
https://www.elenawalch.com/
Mendelbahn (Standseilbahn)
Mendelbahn
site
46.4080034
11.2346946
ChIJnRh7f7mEgkcRkJnrSFJ6_XY
A 1903 funicular that climbs 854 metres from Kaltern to the Mendel Pass in twelve minutes, with a maximum gradient of 64 percent—it runs every twenty minutes.
https://www.sta.bz.it/de/eisenbahnen-seilbahnen/standseilbahn-mendel/
Burgschenke Hocheppan
Burgschenke Hocheppan
site
46.4925079
11.2425594
ChIJIYS926mbgkcRl9o4RCtlmDU
The tavern inside Ulrich II's castle of about 1130, serving dumplings that echo the famous Knödel fresco in the chapel next door—closed Wednesdays, and it's a walk up from Missian.
https://hocheppan.it/
Weingut Manincor
Manincor
site
46.3914827
11.2558083
ChIJ0cHf27uEgkcR4h-7LNgZq5I
Michael Goëss-Enzenberg's biodynamic estate above Lake Kaltern, where Walter Angonese and Rainer Köberl buried the entire cellar under the vineyard across three floors—book tastings ahead.
https://www.manincor.com/
Kalterer See / Lago di Monticolo (Wald-Substitut)
Großer Montiggler See
site
46.4234557
11.2907046
ChIJR30bmcqcgkcRWT0801KXXqM
The larger of two woodland bathing lakes in the Montiggl forest above Eppan, 18 hectares with a lido, diving tower and a two-kilometre shore path—summer buses save the parking hunt.
https://www.eppan.com/en/experience/lakes-nature/the-montiggl-lakes
Knottnkino
Knottnkino
site
46.6200554
11.2143951
ChIJk7YirTe9gkcR0_O4BZi_uic
Thirty steel-and-chestnut cinema seats bolted to the Rotsteinkogel outcrop above Vöran, placed there by artist Franz Messner in 2001—the screen is the whole Etsch valley below.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/en/hafling-voeran-meran-2000/nature-culture/places-of-interest/knottnkino-in-voeran.html
Seilbahn Vigiljoch (Lana)
Seilbahn Vigiljoch
site
46.620608
11.1398183
ChIJ2VT2DZW-gkcR9R_-pV0nlCY
Running since 1912 and rebuilt in 2023, this cable car lifts you from Lana to a car-free mountain at 1,500 metres in six minutes—a chairlift continues higher.
https://www.vigiljoch.com/
Marlinger Waalweg (Einstieg Töll)
Marlinger Waalweg
site
46.6804133
11.0930576
ChIJCUMYO9a5gkcRQ7CyMdnhzzY
South Tyrol's longest irrigation-channel path, twelve almost level kilometres from the Etsch weir at Töll through chestnut groves and orchards to the Vigiljoch cable car in Lana.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/de/partschins-rabland-und-toell/aktivurlaub/wandern-bergsteigen/wanderwege/einfache-touren/121155958-marlinger-waalweg-ab-toell-genusswanderung-entlang-historischer-wasserlaeufe.html
Kränzelhof (7 Gärten)
Kränzelhof
site
46.6265423
11.1476677
ChIJM_i3xNW9gkcRjgXVL1_y-xE
Franz von Pfeil turned his family's 14th-century wine estate into seven gardens with a hedge labyrinth, opened to visitors in 2006—the old mill now houses Restaurant Miil.
https://www.kraenzelhof.it/
Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff
Trauttmansdorff
site
46.6606836
11.1851481
ChIJgxXha3O8gkcREcinMhJiWrQ
Twelve hectares of gardens wrapped around a castle, climbing 100 metres through more than 80 planted landscapes, with the Touriseum inside telling 250 years of alpine tourism history.
https://www.trauttmansdorff.it/
Schloss Tirol
Schloss Tirol
site
46.6947186
11.1451197
ChIJm4Fjrmy5gkcRjWiv4QGYnHw
The seat of the Counts of Tyrol that gave the whole region its name, with 12th-century marble doorways, early Gothic frescoes and the oldest surviving Tyrolean stained glass.
https://www.schlosstirol.it/
Passeggiata Tappeiner
Tappeiner Promenade
site
46.6726155
11.168976
ChIJ88h0sf-7gkcRNX4W__-D2pA
Four kilometres of nearly level path above Merano, laid out by the physician Franz Tappeiner and planted with Chinese palms, agaves and olive trees—it runs from the Gilf Promenade to Quarazze.
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/en/merano/active-relaxing/walking-hiking/walks-and-promenades/121155189-tappeinerweg.html
Funivia Lagazuoi (Passo Falzarego)
Funivia Lagazuoi
site
46.5191511
12.0085266
ChIJL0WkHh44eEcRg0Inf49-GgU
Engineer Ugo Illing's cableway has run from Falzarego Pass since 1964, lifting you 630 metres in under three minutes to the wartime tunnels and terrace at 2,732 metres.
https://lagazuoi.it/
Capanna Alpina (Fanes-Trailhead)
Capanna Alpina
site
46.5600534
11.9822797
ChIJiyLXuaI-eEcRfCA7SA2PEqg
This roadside inn on Str. Sciaré below the Conturines is where the Fanes plateau walks begin—park here, ten euros a day in summer, and reach Rifugio Scotoni in fifty minutes.
https://www.altabadia.org/en/info/restaurants/detail/gastronomy/restaurant-capanna-alpina
Museum Ladin (Ćiastel de Tor)
Museum Ladin
site
46.6804906
11.8930182
ChIJG8CPyLAieEcRUVEv3lLplcg
The castle's residential tower went up around 1230 for the bishops of Brixen; inside, the museum lays out the language, legends and crafts of the Ladin valleys.
https://www.museumladin.it/
Prati dell'Armentara
Prati dell'Armentara
site
46.6420871
11.9192515
ChIJ2-s0CAA9eEcRZX5NsVOx7Lg
Three hundred hectares of pasture tilt beneath the Sasso di Santa Croce between 1,600 and 2,000 metres, thick with gentian and globeflower in early summer—walk up from Furnacia in about an hour.
https://www.altabadia.org/en/poi/what-to-do-in-alta-badia/detail/poi/armentara-meadows
Forcella Sassolungo Gondelbahn (Passo Sella)
Forcella Sassolungo Gondelbahn
site
46.5089517
11.7559388
ChIJD7sp891qeEcRHN4kLKXZAuE
Standing-room cabins barely wider than a person haul two at a time from Passo Sella up to the Toni Demetz hut at 2,695 metres, wedged in the Sassolungo notch.
https://sassolungo.bz
Puflatsch / Bullaccia (Einkehr)
Puflatsch
site
46.5515291
11.6163819
ChIJkQZHNlYNeEcRIEAnWU7bFTg
Trail 14 climbs steeply from Compatsch onto this grassy shoulder to the Hexenbänke, stone seats where the Sciliar witches were said to rest—the Puflatschhütte is the obvious lunch stop.
https://www.seiseralm.it/en/enjoyment-experience/experience/shopping/88184D11B1484E4181D38594DBB98BEF-the-witches-benches.html
Cabinovia Alpe di Siusi (Seis)
Cabinovia Alpe di Siusi
site
46.5402308
11.5639368
ChIJXSr_wPhzeEcRWIip0qYpK1c
From Siusi it covers 4.4 kilometres and 800 vertical metres to Compatsch in fifteen minutes—between 9am and 5pm the road up is shut, so this is how you arrive.
https://www.seiser-alm.it/en/service/local-public-transport/alpe-di-siusi-cable-car/
Chiesa San Giacomo / St. Jakob
San Giacomo
site
46.5733907
11.6942432
ChIJ-8hAaU0SeEcRCY9vJXZmInQ
Val Gardena's oldest church, first documented in 1283, sits alone on a wooded shoulder above Ortisei and is reachable only on foot—the Gothic frescoes inside are replicas.
https://www.valgardena-groeden.com/en/highlights/sights/st-jacobs-church/
Museum Gherdëina
Museum Gherdëina
site
46.5739053
11.6746125
ChIJxU3Xif4SeEcR_bbZQTPs7NM
Inside the Cësa di Ladins since 1960, this shows Val Gardena's carved wooden dolls, an ichthyosaur skeleton from the Dolomite seabed, and Luis Trenker's medals and film prizes.
https://www.museumgherdeina.it
Seceda Seilbahn (Ortisei)
Seceda Seilbahn
site
46.5764597
11.6748572
ChIJC_0Zdf8SeEcRWwqf3fi9cQ4
Two stages from Ortisei via Furnes lift you to 2,500 metres and the tilted Odle ridge Apple used at its 2017 developer conference—ride the first cabin to beat the crowds.
https://www.seceda.it
Tre Cime / Rifugio Auronzo
Rifugio Auronzo
site
46.6122429
12.2961887
ChIJGwYponPNeUcRf51IwPAdcTU
The CAI Auronzo hut stands at 2,333 metres directly under the south faces of the Tre Cime, reached by the toll road up from Misurina—the classic loop around the peaks starts here.
https://rifugioauronzo.it/en/
Antholzer See
Antholzer See
site
46.8847563
12.1672788
ChIJ0Q7YLlaPd0cRkQO12cwnqVU
South Tyrol's third-largest mountain lake lies at 1,640 metres below the Rieserferner range, inside the nature park of the same name—a marked nature trail runs right around the shore.
https://www.antholzertal.com/en/water-highlights/lake-antholz
Obersee
Obersee
site
46.8911587
12.2024159
ChIJpZra3saFd0cRkpEU7ioSrUo
Two hundred metres past the Austrian border below Staller Sattel, this lake at 2,016 metres has an alpine inn on its shore and an easy path around it—snowshoes in winter.
https://www.osttirol.com/en/events-culture/sightseeing-and-places-of-interest/detail/infrastructure/staller-sattel-and-lake-obersee-st-jakob-id
Staller Sattel / Passo di Stalle
Staller Sattel
site
46.8833333
12.2
ChIJJ-b2G9uFd0cRSoGujS7X8e0
The 2,050-metre pass into Austria narrows to one lane, so a traffic light sends cars up from Antholz between :30 and :45 and down on the hour—no buses.
https://www.antholzertal.com/en/discover/staller-saddle-lake-obersee
LUMEN Museum
LUMEN
site
46.7407493
11.9559888
ChIJpaEu2d4heEcReUu0W47atr4
A museum of mountain photography in the rebuilt 1963 summit station of Kronplatz's first cable car, with rooms on mirrors, lenses and old alpine postcards—AlpiNN is upstairs.
https://lumenmuseum.it/
MMM Corones
MMM Corones
site
46.7374234
11.9546676
ChIJV97QNdEjeEcR29Awetn4oCw
Zaha Hadid's concrete chambers burrow into the summit of Kronplatz at 2,275 metres, holding Reinhold Messner's account of traditional alpinism—it opened in 2015, last of his six museums.
https://www.messner-mountain-museum.it/en/discover/corones/
Museum Mansio Sebatum
Mansio Sebatum
site
46.7828598
11.9022275
ChIJaRABw3AfeEcRI-pATnzDyHU
South Tyrol's only museum devoted to the Iron Age and Roman period tells the story of Sebatum, the road station that stood here—the Celtic coins and bronze belt plate stand out.
https://www.mansio-sebatum.it/en/
MMM Ripa (Schloss Bruneck)
MMM Ripa
site
46.7943656
11.9396634
ChIJCYgy3zogeEcR2B22CBMip74
Reinhold Messner's museum inside Bruneck Castle, once the summer residence of the Prince-Bishops of Brixen, gathers the lives of 25 mountain peoples from Nepal to Peru—a short climb above town.
https://www.messner-mountain-museum.it/en/discover/ripa/
Stadtgasse Bruneck
Stadtgasse
site
46.7956179
11.9377372
ChIJh2pThDogeEcR7IiOdLNh0Jg
Bruneck's main street runs below the castle Bishop Bruno von Kirchberg founded around 1250, lined with gabled merchants' houses whose ground floors hold shops and inns—look up for surviving frescoes.
https://www.bruneck.com/en/info/town-street_2603
Plose Seilbahn (St. Andrä)
Plose Seilbahn
site
46.6980164
11.6826381
ChIJW2VepKsaeEcR5zRKs2-kJ-Y
The gondola climbs from St. Andrä above Brixen to the Plose ridge; in winter the RudiRun toboggan run drops nine kilometres from the top station back to the valley.
https://www.plose.org/en/
Kloster Neustift / Abbazia di Novacella
Kloster Neustift
site
46.7426327
11.6484488
ChIJnY60LP8EeEcRXvYQOCigXhk
Blessed Hartmann founded this Augustinian abbey in 1142 and the canons still press wine here, making it one of the world's oldest working wineries—the museum opens Monday to Saturday.
https://www.kloster-neustift.it/en/
Chiesa di Santa Maddalena + Panoramaweg
Santa Maddalena
site
46.6447026
11.7194329
ChIJ7XvyzAQReEcRbU3jHIuQiJE
Only the bell tower survives from the church first recorded in 1394; the rest is late Gothic, and the loop through the meadows behind it gives the Odle postcard view.
https://www.odlesdolomites.com/en/region/val-di-funes/
Chiesetta di San Giovanni in Ranui
San Giovanni in Ranui
site
46.6350941
11.7243021
ChIJRRI_NxQReEcRgtpc6XOA7J0
Joseph Anton Jenner had this Baroque chapel with its star-topped onion dome built in 1744; it sits on the Runggatscher family's Ranui farm below the Odle peaks.
https://www.ranuihof.com/en/residenzaranuihof/chiesettadiranui/
Kreuzgang Dom Brixen
Domkreuzgang Brixen
site
46.715484
11.6579003
ChIJo73c22oFeEcRz3-xyynatGI
Fifteen frescoed arcades from the 14th and 15th centuries beside the cathedral—in the third bay, an artist who had never seen an elephant painted one as a grey horse with a trunk.
https://www.brixnerdom.com/
Hofburg Brixen
Hofburg Brixen
site
46.7148564
11.6556157
ChIJV8Z6H2sFeEcRrfh2lTCyluc
The prince-bishops' 13th-century palace has housed the Diocesan Museum since the see moved to Bolzano in 1973; its Probst nativity scene alone counts over 5,000 figures.
https://www.hofburg.it/