South Tyrol

South Tyrol is the northernmost province in . This region can offer a lot of cultural highlights, both large cities and small picturesque storybook villages, and huge areas of wild nature, including the most important Italian national park, and many more regional parks, lakes, valleys and mountains.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bolzano and Brixen.

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or Bozen, is the capital city of South Tyrol, the German-speaking region in the northern part of . is the largest city in the region.

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is a town in South Tyrol. 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.

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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.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Sterzing and Bruneck.

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is in South Tyrol. The city is just south of the . This historic Alpine town is the main town of the Wipptal region and advertises itself as the gateway to South Tyrol.

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is a city in in South Tyrol, . The town is economically and culturally the centre of the Puster valley.

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in Gröden, commonly abbreviated to St. Ulrich, is a picturesque town which is the main town within the Val Gardena valley within South Tyrol.

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is a town in South Tyrol, included in the list of "most beautiful towns in Italy". It is located along the Eisack river. Geographically, is located about thirty kilometers north of and about ten kilometers south of in the Eisack valley area.

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is in South Tyrol. Perched at about 1,000m above sea level in the Dolomites, this small town is a good place to stay while exploring the nearby alpine meadow and the surrounding peaks.

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is in the upper Vinschgau valley of South Tyrol. It is the smallest town in the region with around 900 inhabitants with the overwhelming majority of them being native German speakers.

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is a historic farm- and tourist-village at the foot of the Sciliar mountain in South Tyrol. Perched at about 900m above sea level in the Dolomites, this 3.500 inhabitant-village is a good place to stay while exploring the nearby Sciliar, alpine meadow and the surrounding peaks.

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is the largest alpine plateau in Europe in the South Tyrolean Dolomites in Italy with a size of 57 km². At an altitude of 970 m, it is one of the largest closed high plateaus in the Alps.

South Tyrol

  • Type: province of Italy with 531,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous province of Italy
  • Also known as: “Alto Adige”, “autonomous province of Bolzano”, “Autonomous Province of Bolzano”, “Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol”, “autonomous province of Bolzano-Bozen”, “autonomous province of Bozen”, “Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano – South Tyrol”, “Bolzano province”, “Botzen”, “Bozen province”, “province of Bolzano”, “province of Bolzano-Bozen”, “Province of Bolzano-Bozen”, “province of Bozen”, “Provincia autonoma di Bolzano”, “provincia di Bolzano”, “South Tirol”, and “Südtirol”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
46.7167° or 46° 43′ north
Longitude of center
11.5° or 11° 30′ east
Population
531,000
Elevation
2,153 metres (7,064 feet)
Abbreviation
“BZ”
Geo­Names ID
3181912
Wiki­data ID
Q15124
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“South Tyrol” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Suid-Tirol”
  • Afrikaans: “Suid-Tirool”
  • Albanian: “Provinca autonome e Bolcanos”
  • Albanian: “Provinca Autonome e Bolzanos”
  • Arabic: “جنوب ترول”
  • Arabic: “جنوب تيرول”
  • Arabic: “جنوب تِيرُول”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بُلسانة”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بولسانو”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة جنوب تِرول”
  • Aragonese: “Provincia autonoma de Bozen”
  • Armenian: “Բոլցանո”
  • Asturian: “Provincia autónoma de Bolzano”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Tirol”
  • Basque: “Bozen-Hego Tirolgo probintzia autonomoa”
  • Bavarian: “Sidtiroul”
  • Belarusian: “Бальцана (правінцыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Бальцана”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Тыроль”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы Ціроль”
  • Bengali: “আলতো আদিজে”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ টিরল”
  • Breton: “Sutirol”
  • Bulgarian: “Южен Тирол”
  • Catalan: “Tirol del Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Bolzano”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای باشووری تیرۆل”
  • Chinese: “Bolzano Chū-tī Séng”
  • Chinese: “南鐵羅”
  • Chinese: “博尔扎诺-上阿迪杰自治省”
  • Chinese: “博岑-南提洛自治省”
  • Chinese: “波爾察諾-上阿迪傑自治省”
  • Chinese: “波爾扎諾自治省”
  • Chinese: “阿迪傑”
  • Croatian: “Autonomna pokrajina Bocen”
  • Czech: “Autonomní provincie Bolzano”
  • Czech: “Jižní Tyrolsko/Südtirol”
  • Czech: “Jižní Tyrolsko”
  • Czech: “Südtirol”
  • Danish: “Sydtyrol”
  • Dutch: “autonome provincie Bolzano”
  • Dutch: “provincie Bolzano-Bozen”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Tirol”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Tirool”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جنوب تيرول”
  • Esperanto: “Sudtirolo”
  • Estonian: “Bolzano provints”
  • Finnish: “Alto Adige”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Tiroli”
  • Finnish: “Provincia autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Finnish: “Südtirol”
  • French: “Haut-Adige”
  • French: “province autonome de Bolzano”
  • French: “Province autonome de Bolzano”
  • French: “Sud-Tyrol”
  • French: “Tyrol du Sud”
  • Galician: “Provincia autónoma de Bolzano”
  • Georgian: “ბოლცანო (პროვინცია)”
  • Georgian: “ბოლცანოს პროვინცია”
  • German: “Autonome Provinz Bozen – Südtirol”
  • German: “Autonome Provinz Bozen”
  • German: “Bozen – Südtirol”
  • German: “Bozen”
  • German: “Provinz Bozen”
  • German: “Süd-Tirol”
  • German: “Südtirol”
  • German: “Tiroler Etschland”
  • Greek: “Άλτο Άντιτζε”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη επαρχία του Μπολτσάνο”
  • Greek: “Αυτόνομη Επαρχία του Μπολτσάνο”
  • Greek: “Νότιο Τιρόλο”
  • Hebrew: “דרום טירול”
  • Hungarian: “Bolzano autonóm megye”
  • Hungarian: “Bolzano megye”
  • Hungarian: “Bozen autonóm megye”
  • Hungarian: “Bozen megye”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Tirol”
  • Hungarian: “Südtirol”
  • Indonesian: “Tirol Selatan”
  • Interlingua: “Provincia de Bolzano”
  • Irish: “An Tioróil Theas”
  • Irish: “Tirol Theas”
  • Italian: “Alto Adige”
  • Italian: “Bolzano”
  • Italian: “provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige”
  • Italian: “provincia autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Italian: “Provincia autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Italian: “Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Italian: “provincia di Bolzano”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Bolzano”
  • Italian: “Sud Tirolo”
  • Italian: “Sudtirolo”
  • Italian: “Tirolo del Sud”
  • Japanese: “ボルツァーノ自治県”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi otonom Bolzano”
  • Kashubian: “Pôłniowi Tirol”
  • Korean: “볼차노도”
  • Kurdish: “Tîrola Başur”
  • Ladin: “Adesc Aut”
  • Ladin: “Alto Adige”
  • Ladin: “Bulsan – Südtirol”
  • Ladin: “Südtirol”
  • Ladin: “Tirol dl Sud”
  • Ladino: “Provinsia de Bolzano”
  • Latin: “Athesina Superior”
  • Latin: “Provincia Bauzanensis”
  • Latin: “Tirolis Athesina”
  • Latvian: “Alto Adidže”
  • Latvian: “Bolcāno autonomā province”
  • Latvian: “Bolcāno province”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidtirole”
  • Ligurian: “Provinsa de Bolsàn”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Tirolis”
  • Lombard: “Südtirol”
  • Low German: “Zuud-Tirool”
  • Luxembourgish: “Südtiroul”
  • Macedonian: “Јужен Тирол”
  • Mazanderani: “فروزینونه اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bolzano Chū-tī Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Süüdtirool”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den autonome provinsen Bolzano-Syd-Tirol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Tirol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Tyrol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolzano-provinsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Bolzano”
  • Norwegian: “Syd-Tirol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província autonòma de Bolzano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província del Sud-Tiròl”
  • Ossetian: “Больцано”
  • Persian: “التو آدیجه”
  • Persian: “تیرول جنوبی”
  • Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Bolsan”
  • Polish: “Bolzano”
  • Polish: “Bozen-Südtirol”
  • Polish: “Południowy Tyrol”
  • Polish: “Südtirol”
  • Portuguese: “Bolzano”
  • Portuguese: “Província autónoma de Bolzano”
  • Quechua: “Urin Tirul”
  • Romanian: “provincia autonomă Bolzano”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Autonomă Bolzano”
  • Romanian: “Tirolul de Sud”
  • Romansh: “Provinza autonoma da Bulsaun”
  • Romansh: “Tirol dal Sid”
  • Russian: “автономная провинция Больцано-Боцен - Южный Тироль”
  • Russian: “Больцано-Боцен - Южный Тироль”
  • Russian: “Больцано”
  • Russian: “Южный Тироль”
  • Sardinian: “Provìntzia autònoma de Bolzano - Alto Adige/Südtirol”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Suudtirol”
  • Scots: “Sooth Tyrol”
  • Serbian: “Болцано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolzano”
  • Sicilian: “Pruvincia autònoma di Buzzanu”
  • Sicilian: “Pruvincia autònuma di Buzzanu”
  • Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Buzzanu”
  • Slovak: “Autonómna provincia Bolzano – Horná Adiža”
  • Slovenian: “Avtonomna pokrajina Bolzano”
  • Slovenian: “Bolzano”
  • Slovenian: “Bolzanska pokrajina”
  • Slovenian: “Južna Tirolska”
  • Slovenian: “pokrajina Bolzano”
  • Slovenian: “provincia autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Slovenian: “Zgornje Poadižje”
  • Spanish: “Alto Adigio”
  • Spanish: “Bolzano”
  • Spanish: “Provincia autónoma de Bolzano”
  • Spanish: “Tirol de Sur”
  • Swedish: “Alto Adige”
  • Swedish: “Provincia autonoma di Bolzano”
  • Swedish: “Südtirol”
  • Swedish: “Sydtyrolen”
  • Swiss German: “Bozen - Südtirol”
  • Swiss German: “Südtirol”
  • Tagalog: “Bolzano”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigang Awtonomo ng Bolzano”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดทีโรลใต้”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Südtirol”
  • Turkish: “Güney Tirol”
  • Ukrainian: “Больцано”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Больцано”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Južny Tirol”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی ٹائرول”
  • Venetian: “Alto Àdeze”
  • Venetian: “Provincia autònoma de Bolzan”
  • Venetian: “Sud Tiroło”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolzano-Bozen”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Tirol”
  • Vlaams: “Zuud-Tirol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bolzano”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Bolzano”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոլզանօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Súd-Tiroal”
  • Wu Chinese: “博尔扎诺-南蒂罗尔自治省”
  • Yiddish: “דרום טיראל”
  • Yue Chinese: “南鐵羅”
  • “Alto Adige”
  • “Elt Égg’”
  • “ma lili Ato Asite”
  • “ma lili Posano”
  • “ma lili Posen”
  • “ma lili Sisiko”
  • “Provinge autonome de Bolzane”
  • “Provinge autonome de Bolzano”
  • “Südtirol”

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