Rural Dwellings near Bolzano

There are still some older houses very near Bolzano - pictures from my excursion to Rafenstein, Afing, Flaas.
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Bolzano - under the fig tree

It's not the backyard (usually we don't have backyards in our region), but just a corner behind the building where I'm living in.
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Lazise (Garda Lake) - art exhibition

Pictures by Erre Monaco in Lazise
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Branzoll (Bolzano) - Water Recycling Plant

Open door at the water recycling plant in Branzoll, a few kilometers south of Bolzano.
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Picture below: a glimpse at the hamlet of Vadena, on the other side of the Adige river.

Lago di Garda: Lazise

Lazise: little medieval town on the south-east shores of Garda Lake - it had acquired special municipal rights since 993 CE thanks to a privilege issued by the emperor Otto II.
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(see some more picture about Lazise in my flickr-page)

Gatherings

Family-gathering near Bolzano.
In the place ("Noafer") of this gathering I found the photograph in the picture below which presents the Noafer-family in older times. As you can see the photograph was taken by Waldmueller, a renowned photo studio in Bolzano working still in the 1970ties but now closed.
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View from Noafer toward Sciliar (above) and Weisshorn/Scharzhorn (below)

Jenesien/San Genesio

Hiking from Jenesien (about 1100 m asl) toward Lafenn (1500 m asl). These horses are of typical local breed: Haflinger
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Alpine meadows with dandelions and larches

Beyond Lafenn, near Moelten

Hiking/Biking near Bolzano/Bozen

This was tough: the path almost gone, I had to clear shrubs and thorns.

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I wonder why I hadn't considered to take the lift.

Bolzano/Bozen - spring in the urban neighborhood

Bolzano - Easter with Glycine

Glycine at the entrance of a very old building on the slope towards Rafenstein.
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Gescheibter Turm/torre tonda

Among the old buildings of Bolzano this tower is still in perfect shape. There is no sure date when it was erected, but some scholar points at the period around 1280 CE assuming it was erected by count Meinhard II. In the picture below you see a very old rural house and there is no way to trace its origins. It's very near to the tower and maybe it's as old as the tower (or even older).
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Update 2007 April 26: this is a picture from yesterday, with better lighting than the other ones; the tower is more than 23 m high, the outer diameter is almost 9 m, the wall is 2.30 m thick.

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)