Bolzano (Italian) or Bozen (German), (Ladin: Balsan, Bulsan) is the capital city of South Tyrol, the German speaking region in the northern part of Italy.
Bolzano is the largest city in the region. Its archaeology museum is famous worldwide as the home of the alpine iceman "Ötzi".
It is also known as the Italian Capital of Christmas thanks to its characteristic Christmas market. Bolzano's population is around 100,000 (140,000 including the metropolitan area). 25% of inhabitants speak German as their mother tongue, which is much higher in the non-urban parts of the province (up to more than 90% in some areas), making the city and province officially bilingual.
Together with Innsbruck, Bolzano is officially the capital of the Alps because the seat of the Alpine Convention is there.
The world-famous Museum of Archaeology with the Iceman and the Messner Mountain Museum's main seat make Bolzano a world city of mountaineering history and culture. I will visit the museum tomorrow and try to get some photos of the Iceman. Meanwhile, I managed to get booked into a most beautiful modern botique style hotel called The Hotel Greif (rhymes with life) it is German for Griffin.
Lugano knows how to do pastries and chocolate
Coop City a great department store in Lugano centre
An electric bike
This is the tree that came down from heaven (LOL) by heliocopter
my artist and facebook friend, Marianne; who lives in Lugano all of her life.
This littel dog kept trying to catch a little sparrow
Workers building the Xmas Village
Lugano Post Office known as La Posta
Lobby of the Hotel Federale in Lugano
Leaving Lugano
Leaving Switzerland and entering the customs area of Italy
Coming into the Bolzano area
Every room in the Hotel Greif has a silver umbrella in it
My hotel room, the best on yet and a bargain price as well
It's more of a flat than a hotel room
Here I climber up the staris and opened the window to take some night shots of the town square
The twon square shots
Hotel bar area
Hotel entrance
A beautiful and quiet restaurant in Bolzano called Kaiser Krone (German for Kings Crown)
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