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 Brixen is also known for sledging, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing that can be done in its municipal territory.
- 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
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St. Andrä and Sarns.
Brixen
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
46.7164° or 46° 42′ 59″ north
Longitude
11.6578° or 11° 39′ 28″ east
Population
23,000
Elevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Lithuanian: “Briksenas”
- 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: “Bressanone”
- 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”
- Urdu: “برکسین”
- Venetian: “Bressanone”
- Vietnamese: “Brixen”
- Volapük: “Bressanone”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brixen”
- Welsh: “Brixen”
- Wu Chinese: “布雷萨诺内”
- “Bressanone”
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