Brixen
Brixen is a town in South Tyrol. Brixen is especially known for its skiing, with a major ski resort, the Plose, and those of Valles and Maranza. In addition to ski tourism, during the winter season Bressanone is also known for sledging, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing that can be done in its municipal territory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: commune in South Tyrol, Italy
- Also known as: “Bressanone”, “Brixen - Bressanone”, and “Persenon”
Photo: Laura1010, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bressanone/Brixen railway station and Cathedral of Brixen.
Cathedral of Brixen
Church
Photo: Ugo franchini, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Brixen is a cathedral in the city of Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and to Cassian of Imola.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St. Andrä and Sarns.
Brixen
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.7164° or 46° 42′ 59″ northLongitude
11.6578° or 11° 39′ 28″ eastPopulation
23,000Elevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 64777005OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Brixen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريسانوني”
- Arabic: “بريكسن”
- Aragonese: “Brixen”
- Armenian: “Բրիքսեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Bressanone”
- Azerbaijani: “Brixen”
- Bashkir: “Брессаноне”
- Basque: “Brixen”
- Bavarian: “Bressanone”
- Bavarian: “Brixn”
- Bavarian: “Prixn”
- Belarusian: “Брэсанонэ”
- Breton: “Brixen”
- Bulgarian: “Бресаноне”
- Catalan: “Bressanone”
- Catalan: “Brixen”
- Catalan: “Persenon”
- Cebuano: “Bressanone - Brixen”
- Chechen: “Брессаноне”
- Chinese: “布雷萨诺内”
- Chinese: “布雷薩諾內”
- Croatian: “Brixen”
- Czech: “Bressanone”
- Czech: “Brixen”
- Danish: “Bressanone”
- Danish: “Brixen”
- Dutch: “Bressanone”
- Dutch: “Brixen”
- Dutch: “Porsenù”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريكسن”
- Esperanto: “Bressanone”
- Esperanto: “Brixen”
- Esperanto: “Persenon”
- Estonian: “Brixen”
- Finnish: “Bressanone”
- Finnish: “Brixen”
- French: “Bressanone”
- French: “Brixen”
- French: “Persenon”
- Georgian: “ბრესანონე”
- German: “Bressanone”
- German: “Brixen am Eisack”
- German: “Brixen in Südtirol”
- German: “Brixen”
- German: “Brixina”
- German: “Persenon”
- German: “Porsenu”
- German: “Porsenú”
- German: “Porsenù”
- Greek: “Μπρεσσανόνε”
- Greek: “Μπρίξεν”
- Hebrew: “ברסנונה”
- Hungarian: “Bressanone”
- Indonesian: “Brixen”
- Interlingua: “Bressanone”
- Irish: “Brixen”
- Italian: “Bressanone”
- Italian: “Brixen”
- Italian: “Persenon”
- Japanese: “ブリクセン”
- Japanese: “ブレッサノーネ”
- Kazakh: “Bressanone”
- Kazakh: “Брессаноне”
- Kazakh: “برەسسانونە”
- Korean: “브레사노네”
- Korean: “브릭센”
- Kurdish: “Bressanone”
- Kurdish: “Brixen”
- Ladin: “Bressanone”
- Ladin: “Brixen”
- Ladin: “Persenon”
- Ladin: “Porsenú”
- Ladin: “Porsenù”
- Ladino: “Bressanone”
- Latin: “Brixino”
- Latvian: “Bresanone”
- Latvian: “Briksena”
- Latvian: “Briksene”
- Lithuanian: “Bresanonė”
- Lombard: “Barsenun”
- Lombard: “Bressanone”
- Luxembourgish: “Bressanone”
- Luxembourgish: “Brixen”
- Macedonian: “Бриксен”
- Malay: “Brixen”
- Maltese: “Bressanone”
- Maltese: “Brixen”
- Moksha: “Брэссанонэ”
- Neapolitan: “Bressanone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bressanone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brixen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brixen”
- Norwegian: “Brixen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bressanone”
- Persian: “بریکسن”
- Piemontese: “Bressanone”
- Piemontese: “Brixen”
- Polish: “Bressanon”
- Polish: “Bressanone”
- Polish: “Brixen”
- Portuguese: “Bressanone”
- Portuguese: “Brixen”
- Portuguese: “Persenon”
- Romanian: “Bressanone”
- Romanian: “Brixen”
- Russian: “Брессаноне”
- Russian: “Бриксен”
- Scots: “Brixen”
- Serbian: “Bresanone”
- Serbian: “Bressanone”
- Serbian: “Бресаноне”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bressanone”
- Sicilian: “Bressanone”
- Silesian: “Bressanone”
- Slovak: “Brixen”
- Slovenian: “Bressanone”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریکسن”
- Spanish: “Bresanona”
- Spanish: “Brixen am Eisack”
- Spanish: “Brixen Bressanone”
- Spanish: “Brixen-Bressanone”
- Spanish: “Brixen”
- Spanish: “Persenon”
- Swahili: “Bressanone”
- Swedish: “Bressanone”
- Swedish: “Brixen”
- Swedish: “Brixina”
- Tagalog: “Bresanona”
- Tagalog: “Bressanone”
- Tatar: “Брессаноне”
- Turkish: “Bressanone”
- Turkish: “Brixen”
- Ukrainian: “Бресаноне”
- Ukrainian: “Брессаноне”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brixen”
- Venetian: “Bressanone”
- Vietnamese: “Brixen”
- Volapük: “Bressanone”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brixen”
- Welsh: “Brixen”
- Wu Chinese: “布雷萨诺内”
- “Bressanone”
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