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HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS Southerly Trentino is the most Italian enclave. Heading north along the Adige river, most Italian enclave. is the Southerly Trentino Both regions are crisscrossed by valleys and, though few are remote these days, most retain these days, most retain remote are crisscrossed by valleys and, though few are Both regions The region is dominated by the Dolomites and protected by seven natural parks, including natural parks, by seven and protected by the Dolomites is dominated region The Until 1919 Trentino-Alto Adige was part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Embedded Adige was partUntil 1919 Trentino-Alto Empire. of the former Austro-Hungarian
advertising than Venice. culturally closer to Vienna in the South Tyrol, you’re Merano time you reach esoteric cultural quirks, be they Austrian, Italian or – even more confusing – Ladin. confusing more Italian or – even cultural quirks, be they Austrian, esoteric Tyrolean legend Reinhold Messner. Tyrolean legend Reinhold Messner. are their most spectacular and they’ve produced some of the world’s greatest climbers, including produced some of the world’s greatest their most spectacular and they’ve are northern Italy’s largest, Stelvio. While not the Alps’ tallest mountains, these red-hued pinnacles not the Alps’ tallest mountains, these red-hued While northern Stelvio. largest, Italy’s (fewer hand gesticulations and more head nodding). head and more hand gesticulations (fewer the food (sausages and strudel), the architecture (gabled roofs) and the collective personality and the collective (gabled roofs) strudel), the architecture the food (sausages and in the cultural DNA, Austro-German influences are ubiquitous, permeating everything from ubiquitous, permeating everything influences are in the cultural DNA, Austro-German Baffled? You will be. Baffled? You will be. panache, the rationalism of Kantpanache, the rationalism the Renaissance. married with the spontaneous passion of improbable cultural juxtapositions. Imagine Austro-German efficiency blended with Italian efficiency blended with Austro-German Imagine improbable cultural juxtapositions. rolean traditions are laced with a whiff of the Mediterranean in one of the continent’s most in one of the continent’s Mediterranean laced with a whiff of the rolean traditions are extreme north. Here in the two semi-autonomous provinces of Trentino and Alto Adige, Ty of Trentino north. two semi-autonomous provinces in the extreme Here The blurred lines of Europe’s porous borders have never been greyer than they are in Italy’s they are than been greyer never borders have porous of Europe’s lines blurred The Trentino-Alto Adige TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE
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