Castle Tyrol

Castle Tyrol is a museum in Tirol, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige. Castle Tyrol is situated nearby to Tirol Castle, as well as near Saint Peter church.

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Type: Museum
Description: museum in South Tyrol, Italy
Also known as: “Schloss Tirol - Castel Tirolo” and “South Tyrolean Museum of Culture and Provincial History”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tirol Castle and Brunnenburg.

Tirol Castle

Castle

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Tyrol Castle, less commonly Tirol Castle is a castle in the comune of Tirol near Merano, in the Burggrafenamt district of South Tyrol, Italy. It was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Tyrol and gave the whole Tyrol region its name.

Brunnenburg

Castle

Photo: Thomas Hummel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brunnenburg is a 13th-century castle in the province of South Tyrol, in northern Italy. Brunnenburg is situated 370 metres southeast of Castle Tyrol.

Saint Peter church

Church

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Saint Peter church is situated 360 metres west of Castle Tyrol.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tirol and Algund.

Tirol

Village

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Tirol is a comune in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 25 kilometres northwest of the city of Bolzano.

Algund

Village

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Algund is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 25 kilometres northwest of Bolzano.

Merano

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Merano is the second largest town in South Tyrol with a population of about 41,000. A slight majority of the population is Italian-speaking, while the others are German-speaking.

Castle Tyrol

Categories: history museum, museum of a public entity, specialized museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Tirol, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

46.69433° or 46° 41′ 40″ north

Longitude

11.14452° or 11° 8′ 40″ east

Elevation

628 metres (2,060 feet)

Open location code

8FRHM4VV+PR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 736899603

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

12023003

Wikidata ID

Q15131764

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In Other Languages

From Esperanto to Japanese—“Castle Tyrol” goes by many names.

Esperanto: “Burgo Tirolo”
Finnish: “Tirolonlinna”
French: “Château Tyrol”
French: “Musée régional du Tyrol du Sud pour l’histoire de la culture et du pays”
German: “Schloss Tirol”
German: “Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Kultur- und Landesgeschichte”
Italian: “Castel Tirolo”
Italian: “Museo storico-culturale - Castel Tirolo”
Italian: “Museo storico-culturale della Provincia di Bolzano”
Japanese: “南チロル文化歴史博物館”
Japanese: “南チロル歴史博物館”

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