Bolzano - ban vivisection!

LAV - LegaAntiVisezione campaigning against vivisection
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Hiking in the outskirts of Bolzano

There are steep slopes very near to the city center towards east, north and west. Tiny hamlets, little old churches, manors and ruins can be seen right from the city center.
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(have another view of this ruin -Rafenstein- here : look at the first picture)

St. Oswald (Sciliar)

In the Isarco Valley there is at the foot of the Sciliar (picture above) a tiny hamlet, St. Oswald. Here you'll find in an old barn a little museum on rural life in older times (see pictures below).

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Bolzano - more flowers

This week more blossoms came out in Bolzano, at least a fortnight earlier than the last year: see a corresponding forsythia picture from 2006 march 27 in http://vitaalpina.blogspot.com/2006/04/revolution.html.
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This picture by Mateus (riservaXixuaù-Xiparinà, Amazonia/Brasil) was sent to me just today.

Val di Sella (Valsugana, Trento)

Excursion in the Val di Sella (about 1000 m asl) - see also artesella
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