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Autonomous province in northern Italy
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South Tyrol (German: Südtirol, Italian: Alto Adige, Ladin: Sudtirol; also South Tyrol) is the northernmost province in Italy. This Alpine 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. Here one finds the famous Dolomites (inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List) and large important ski resorts near the Austrian border. Once a place of ethnic conflict, South Tyrol has emerged as an international model for inter-ethnic cooperation. German-speaking, Italian or Ladin, South Tyrolians are very proud of this grand accomplishment of inter-ethnic cooperation and compromise and serve as a model for the world. They are truly "European" in every sense.
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Pragser Wildsee
Karersee
Rosengarten group
By plane
The only airport in South Tyrol is the Airport Bolzano Dolomites in the capital city Bolzano.
By train
South Tyrol is well connected, you'll most likely be coming from the rest of Italy via Verona or from the North via Innsbruck (Austria) and through the Brenner Pass.
By bus
South Tyrol is very well connected by bus mainly with Germany and Eastern Central Europe.
By car
You have to drive through South Tyrol, anyway, if you are coming from Germany to other part of Italy.
Value Card
If you want to travel inside South Tyrol and up to Innsbruck or Trento by bus or by train you can buy the "Value Card" ("Wertkarte" or "Carta valore") for €5, €10 or €25 and you will pay less with…
MobilCard
By train
All main valleys are crossed by trains and the two regional main hubs are Bolzano and Franzensfeste, while the main train route is that which goes from north to south and vice versa — the…
By bus
Buses reach places that trains can't. South Tyrol has excellent bus connections inside the country with a very efficient transport system.
By car
Also the smallest and most isolated mountain village is well connected through a well-kept road.
By bike
South Tyrol has one of the most developed bike trail systems in Italy and especially in the valleys you can reach most of the towns in the region and also in the surrounding regions.
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Bolzano (BZ) · Regional · BZO
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the capital and the largest city of South Tyrol with culture, business, shopping and nature
the easternmost town in South Tyrol with an important medieval castle
until 1803 capital of the Bishopric of Brixen; one of the most culturally interesting towns in former Tyrol
considered as the smallest town (place with Stadtrecht, right of city) in Italy and one of the smallest in Europe with its 800 inhabitants
a small town about 20 km to the northeast of Bolzano. It serves as a nice base camp for exploring the adjacent Seiser Alm
picturesque town of artists between Bolzano and Brixen; also included in the list of "most beautiful Italian small towns"
the former capital of the County of Tyrol (1418-1848) and health resort since centuries
Alpine town that looks like a village out of a fairy tale, with skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer
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