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On Saturday mornings I love my cup of coffee at the City Cafe (see picture) at Walther Square in Bolzano and enjoy reading my German and Italian newspapers (in northern Italy, quite a few newspapers are in German).
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Tini and Maurizio at the tourist information
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Can this be done by train or bus, or do you need a car. We want to do hiking in the Domolites while there.
You can go by train from Zurich to Bolzano (Bolzano/Bozen) then on to Venice.
http://www.sbb.ch/en/
will give you train times, details and fares Zurich>Bolzano in English. Journey time is around 6 hours, with changes.
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html
will give you train times, details and fares Bolzano>Venice in English. Around 4 hours, with a change at Verona.
If you want to use public transport, train is better. You go Zurich Innbruck Bolzano Verona Venice:
http://www.oebb.at/en/index.jsp
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html
For lokal transport (only italian or german, english link is not working):
http://www.sad.it/intro.php
But with a car you have much more possibilities, if you rent it in Bolzano, you don´t have extra bordercrossing fees.
On Saturday mornings I love my cup of coffee at the City Cafe (see picture) at Walther Square in Bolzano and enjoy reading my German and Italian newspapers (in northern Italy, quite a few newspapers are in German).
Take the cable tram up to the Gruppo di Sella near the mountain, Marmolada. If you have time and are fit, you can also hike up! The Gruppo di Sella is encircled by mountain roads. So, if you're looking at a road atlas to find this place, look for a road that is a circle. That dot of a person in the pic is my brother standing on a ledge with some steep drop-offs on both sides... This is only a few minutes walk from the tram station.
Do not believe to those people who say that GERMAN is the real language spoken here: yes, it's true they preferrably speak german but for sure they do not kill you if you speak italian !! and they understand you so, don't worry !!!
Castel Roncolo, or Schloss Runkelstein was first built in 1237, rebuilt in 1385 and restored various times. It is made up of three buildings
This castle is well known for its frescoes. in fact many inner walls are decorated with frescoes painted from 1385. Most of these are in good state. These describe scenes from public games, knights in armours or have literary themes such as Tristan and Isolde.
Castel Roncolo hasn't a museum inside, but there you can surely find a temporary exibition.
Inside one of the buildings of the castle there is a nice cafe-restaurant.
Castel Roncolo from inside the ramparts. This well preserved 750 year old Tyrolean fortress is fascinating. It will truly transport you back to the time of chivalrous knights in armor. Here you see some of the many original paintings depicting the lives of Tyrolean knights. Most are in excellent condition, and are considered the best such surviving paintings in the world.
If you visit during the Summer you can enjoy a medieval feast while watching mock but realsitic looking jousting tournaments and other reanactments.
See my previous Castel Roncolo tip for directions to the castle. Warning; I visited in May when the drawbridge is raised early.
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