What a charming town! The Ötzi – the 5000-year old man from the glacier - is absolutely worth seeing in the town’s museum. Not only is he amazingly well preserved, but his clothes and items that he carried with him are too. If you are staying for several days, explore the surrounding area, ... Read review
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Advantages: Charming place - Lots to do in winter and summer Disadvantages: a bit far away from the international airports of Munich, Milan etc.
What a charming town! The Ötzi – the 5000-year old man from the glacier - is absolutely worth seeing in the town’s museum. Not only is he amazingly well preserved, but his clothes and items that he carried with him are too. If you are staying for several days, explore the surrounding area, e.g. go hiking in the Dolomites, or take the gondola up the Ritten, followed by a short train ride in an old fashioned narrow-gauge train and then go for a walk ... ...scenery and clean lovely air thrown in for free. Back in town, pick any of the pub-restaurants for a good value substantial dinner and you are spoilt for choice regarding wines and sumptious Austrian deserts or Italian ice-cream. The town has two universities: the European Academy and the Free University, several castles, a theatre – more than enough to fill a short stay. In winter you can do alpine and nordic skiing nearby. Speak German or Italian, ... more
What a charming town! The Ötzi – the 5000-year old man from the glacier - is absolutely worth seeing in the town’s museum. Not only is he amazingly well preserved, but his clothes and items that he carried with him are too. If you are staying for several days, explore the surrounding area, e.g. go hiking in the Dolomites, or take the gondola up the Ritten, followed by a short train ride in an old fashioned narrow-gauge train and then go for a walk to the truly amazing earth pyramids. You get fantastic scenery and clean lovely air thrown in for free. Back in town, pick any of the pub-restaurants for a good value substantial dinner and you are spoilt for choice regarding wines and sumptious Austrian deserts or Italian ice-cream. The town has two universities: the European Academy and the Free University, several castles, a theatre – more than enough to fill a short stay. In winter you can do alpine and nordic skiing nearby. Speak German or Italian, if you can – most locals are bilingual. Innsbruck is the closest airport, but only offers limited flights from the UK.
I do travel quite a lot around Italy on business, below are a couple of restaurants I found around Bolzano, which I can recommend.
Restaurant Da Cesare.
Address: Via Perathoner 15 - BOLZANO
Tel. 0471-976638 - Fax. 0471-972792
This is in the centre of the city.
The best deal on this restaurant is their fixed price lunch. You can have a 3 course meal at lunch with wine for 25,000 lire, which is currenlty the equivalent of 8 pounds. Servings are ... ...feed themselves on one meal, although I am not sure management there would allow you. At night you can eat with less than 50,000 lire.
I would recommend "pasta fatta in casa", pasta made by the houselady, "carni e pesci alla brace" which is a mixed dish with meat and fish cooked on wood fire.
The other restaurant is:
Ristorante Belle Epoque.
Address: Via Laurin 4 - BOLZANO
Tel. 0471-311000 - Fax. 0471-311148
Also this restaurant is in the centre ...
CICLISTALOCO 19.05.2001
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Advantages: big, rich and full of many cultures. Disadvantages: not a typical Italian city if that's what you are looking for.
Bolzano is said to be the most expensive city in Italy. It shows. It is a fantastic place with a large and attractive centre. The surrounding mountains and hills add to the impression that this city has a very Austrian/German feel about it. That along with the typical German-style ‘Imbiss’ snack bars selling ‘würst’ and the breweries selling German beer, you could begin to think that you were in Germany and not Italy.
There ... ...Like all Northern Italian cities, Bolzano has many festivals. In April there is the festival of ham. (Speckfest) The whole city celebrates the tradition of ham making by wearing traditional dress and putting on concerts. At Christmas there is a massive festival with lots of little stands selling many traditional German/Austrian presents and decorations.
Being the capital of Süd Tirol, Bolzano is the largest town, however around the area there is ...
DanTownsend 13.06.2002
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