NE Italy
Trentino-Alto Adige
South Tyrol

Merano

Merano is the second largest town in with a population of about 41,000. A slight majority of the population is German-speaking, while the others are Italian-speaking.
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  • Type: Town with 33,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in South Tyrol, Italy
  • Also known as: “Meran” and “Merano - Meran”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trauttmansdorff Castle and The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle.

Castle
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is located in northern Italy and has been owned by the Trauttmansdorff family for roughly 500 years. The castle and gardens are of many different architectural styles as construction happened prior to the 1300s, in the 1500s and the 1800s.

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are botanical gardens located on the grounds of in Meran, Italy. The gardens are open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Algund and Tirol.

Village
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is a comune in in northern , located about 25 kilometres northwest of . is situated 3½ km west of Merano.

Village
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is a comune in the province of in northern , located about 25 kilometres northwest of the city of .

Village
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is a village.

Merano

Latitude
46.6714° or 46° 40′ 17″ north
Longitude
11.1646° or 11° 9′ 53″ east
Population
33,700
Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)
IATA airport code
VKB
United Nations Location Code
IT MEN
Open location code
8FRHM5C7+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 64777070
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3173577
Wiki­data ID
Q131605
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Merano” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Merano”
  • Arabic: “ميرانو”
  • Aragonese: “Merano”
  • Armenian: “Մերանո”
  • Asturian: “Merano”
  • Basque: “Meran”
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  • Bavarian: “Meran”
  • Belarusian: “Мерана”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрана”
  • Breton: “Meran”
  • Breton: “Merano-Meran”
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  • Bulgarian: “Меран”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерано”
  • Catalan: “Meran”
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  • Cebuano: “Merano”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێرانۆ”
  • Chechen: “Мерано”
  • Chinese: “梅拉诺”
  • Chinese: “梅拉諾”
  • Chinese: “莫蘭諾”
  • Croatian: “Merano”
  • Czech: “Meran”
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  • Danish: “Meran”
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  • Dutch: “Meraan”
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  • Esperanto: “Meran”
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  • Estonian: “Merano vald”
  • Estonian: “Merano”
  • Faroese: “Meran”
  • Finnish: “Meran”
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  • French: “Meran”
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  • German: “Maran”
  • German: “Meran”
  • German: “Merano”
  • German: “Passerstadt”
  • Greek: “Μεράν”
  • Greek: “Μεράνο”
  • Hebrew: “מראנו”
  • Hungarian: “Meran”
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  • Icelandic: “Meran”
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  • Irish: “Merano”
  • Italian: “Meran”
  • Italian: “Merano”
  • Japanese: “メラーノ”
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  • Kalaallisut: “Meran”
  • Kazakh: “Merano”
  • Kazakh: “Мерано”
  • Kazakh: “مەرانو”
  • Korean: “메라노”
  • Kurdish: “Merano”
  • Ladin: “Maran”
  • Ladin: “Merano”
  • Latin: “Meranum”
  • Latin: “Merona”
  • Lithuanian: “Meranas”
  • Lombard: “Meran”
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  • Macedonian: “Мерано”
  • Malay: “Merano”
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  • Neapolitan: “Merano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meran”
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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meran”
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  • Ossetian: “Мерано”
  • Persian: “مرانو”
  • Piemontese: “Meran”
  • Polish: “Meran”
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  • Romanian: “Meran”
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  • Russian: “Меран”
  • Russian: “Мерано”
  • Scots: “Merano”
  • Serbian: “Merano”
  • Serbian: “Меран”
  • Serbian: “Мерано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meran”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merano”
  • Sicilian: “Merano”
  • Slovak: “Merano”
  • Slovenian: “Meran”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “مرانو”
  • Spanish: “Meran”
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  • Swedish: “Meran”
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  • Tagalog: “Merano”
  • Tatar: “Мерано”
  • Turkish: “Merano”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерано”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Meran”
  • Venetian: “Meran”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Merano”
  • Welsh: “Merano”
  • Western Armenian: “Մերանօ”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅拉诺”
  • Yiddish: “מעראן”
  • “Merano”

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