Padova has one of the oldest universities in the world - I don't remember now the exact year of its foundation, maybe it's about 800 years old (go to Google to verify).
In Vahrn (671 m a.s.l., about 3000 inhabitants) you can see some older buildings, not yet sacrificed to the general replacement that since the 1970thies changed greatly the appearance of villages in this region.
dated 1565 (see below)
Ahhh, blackberries (before being eaten)!
You enter this little valley from Vahrn (near Brixen), it's very narrow and steep, the highest peaks reach about 2500 m asl.
This hamlet (about 1200 m a.s.l.) lies between the Adige Valley and Val di Non
house, barn and garden (fenced)
On the border of the village of Romeno, there is a little chapel. The origin of this chapel (St. Thomas and St. Bartholomew), situated between an apple orchard and a barn, goes very far in the past, maybe at the beginning of the middle ages, about 1500 years ago. The frescos inside (or better: the remnants of it) are about 800 years old.
In the upper part: birth of Jesus; below the Epiphany (Three Kings)
A look from the steep slope in the north of Bolzano back to the city center: the cathedral (and Waltherplatz)
This is one of the favourite silhouettes of the Tyrolean mountains: the Sciliar
Cycling southwards from Bolzano along the Adige river towards the Province of Trento
Haderburg (above Salurn): I took this picture in the evening sun - in the morning (as it is in complete shadow) you could hardly distinguish this castle against the rocks behind
Here we are near Mezzolombardo and from there, on the right, we enter the Val di Non
This area is renowned for the apples they produce here
Swallows are gathering on the belfry.
Monticolo: this village is on the hill at the back of Vadena (see the previous post).
This is the bike-way that goes from Ora along the Adige River towards Bolzano.
Water recycling plant
The village of Vadena. There are remarkable traces of settlements in earlier times (since 900 BC).
