Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Trento & the Dolomites Highlights
Working up a high-altitude appetite on the slopes, then hit the fine-dining hot spot of
Alta Badia
(
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).
Being enchanted by the endless green pastures of the
Alpe di Siusi (
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).
Testing your mettle on a vertiginous
via ferrata
in the Brenta Dolomites (
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).
Sipping a Veneziana
spritz
on a frescoed piazza in
Trento (
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)
.
Floating away beneath palm trees and snowy peaks at
Terme Merano
(
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).
Uncovering excellent contemporary art collections in
Rovereto (
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)
,
Bolzano (
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)
and
Merano (
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).
Discovering Italy's most elegant white wines along the
Weinstrasse (
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).
Getting high above Bolzano's pretty streets on one of its three
cable cars (
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)
.
Feasting your way through schnitzel and
spätzle
, strudel and
knödel
in the
Val Pusteria (
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Mountain biking the apple-clad hills of the
Val di Sole (
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).
Seasons
The ski season runs from early December to early April, high season hits mid-December to
January 6, the last two weeks of February and any early Easter. Summer rates plummet,
apart from August. Many resorts shut in April/May and October/November, while
rifugi
(mountain huts) open from late June to September, the prime hiking season.
Language
Trentino's first language is Italian but head north to Alto Adige (Südtirol) and you'll find
75% of the population are German speakers, a legacy of the region's Austro-Hungarian
past. The Ladin language is spoken in both provinces, across five eastern Dolomiti valleys;
it's a direct descendant of provincial Latin.
