Egna – Neumarkt

Bishop Conrad of Trento founded Egna, Neumarkt in German, as a market town in 1189, and when the Counts of Tyrol later spent their money in Bolzano they left its old face almost untouched. Shops still open under the arcades of the main street, lined with deep hall houses and projecting bay windows. Long before, the Roman post station of Endidae stood here on the Via Claudia Augusta.

Highlights

• The Lauben, arcades of round and pointed arches along the main street
• The excavated Roman station of Endidae on the Via Claudia Augusta
• Santa Maria in Villa, a fine example of Tyrolean late Gothic
• The Klösterle, a medieval pilgrims' hospice at Laghetti
• Romanesque frescoes of the four Evangelists in San Nicolò

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Egna, Neumarkt, South Tyrol), Wikivoyage (Egna). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.