Sara
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This is a trip I took 5/6 years ago, but I guess it would be an interesting read given the fact it’s Christmas time.
I have friends in South Tyrol (known in Italian as Alto Adige), who invited me to have a look at their traditional Christmas Markets. Nowadays you can find the Christmas Markets basically everywhere in the country, but those in South Tyrol were absolutely the first, given the region’s ties to the “German” culture.
During the festivities South Tyrol hosts several markets in most of its towns; the so-called “original South-Tyroler Markets“ though are just five and during my stay there we decided to make some sort of tour and visit them all.
I arrived in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol, with a Trenitalia train leaving from Veneto (where I live). If you travel from the South, you can catch Trenitalia or Italo trains directed toward Bolzano or Brennero or DB / OBB trains directed toward Munich (they usually stop in Bolzano). The closest airports are those in Innsbruck and Verona.
I didn’t stay in a hotel, as I was a guest at my friend’s, but I know for sure that if you stay in a hotel you are granted a guest card that allows you to travel for free with the public transportation system in the whole region (trains, bus, cableways etc.)
I have friends in South Tyrol (known in Italian as Alto Adige), who invited me to have a look at their traditional Christmas Markets. Nowadays you can find the Christmas Markets basically everywhere in the country, but those in South Tyrol were absolutely the first, given the region’s ties to the “German” culture.
During the festivities South Tyrol hosts several markets in most of its towns; the so-called “original South-Tyroler Markets“ though are just five and during my stay there we decided to make some sort of tour and visit them all.
I arrived in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol, with a Trenitalia train leaving from Veneto (where I live). If you travel from the South, you can catch Trenitalia or Italo trains directed toward Bolzano or Brennero or DB / OBB trains directed toward Munich (they usually stop in Bolzano). The closest airports are those in Innsbruck and Verona.
I didn’t stay in a hotel, as I was a guest at my friend’s, but I know for sure that if you stay in a hotel you are granted a guest card that allows you to travel for free with the public transportation system in the whole region (trains, bus, cableways etc.)