Vipiteno – Sterzing

Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia

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Alexander Eric Hasse (1875 - 1935)(Aug 1912) - Sterzing - A.E.HassePublic domain
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Alexander Eric Hasse (1875 - 1935)Sterzing (Aug 1912) - ZwölferturmPublic domain
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Fifteen kilometres below the Brenner Pass, this Eisack valley town lived on transit trade and on silver from nearby valleys, which the Fugger of Augsburg sorted here. After a fire in 1443 the New Town was rebuilt with crenellated late-Gothic houses and covered bay windows, divided from the Old Town by the 46-metre Zwölferturm. Behind it rises the Rosskopf, with ski lifts and a long toboggan run.

Highlights

The Zwölferturm, the 15th-century tower between Old Town and New Town
The Gothic parish church of Unsere liebe Frau im Moos, just outside town
Hans Multscher's Gothic altar, now shown in the Multscher Museum
The late-Gothic Town Hall, with a Roman altar to Mithras in its courtyard
A toboggan run of almost 10 km on the Rosskopf

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Vipiteno, Sterzing), Wikivoyage (Vipiteno). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Population: 6,915

Things to see

Events through the year

Sterzinger Osterspiele Music and arts · Around EasterExhibitions, concerts and theatre
Yogurt days Food and wine · Several weeks in July, into early AugustPromotes the area's local produce
Canederli sagra Food and wine · Second weekend of SeptemberRestaurants serve twenty kinds of canederli dumplings
Christmas market Seasonal · Late November to early JanuaryChristmas stalls themed on the area's mining past
Krampus parade Seasonal · Evening of 5 December, Saint NicholasMasked devils roam the streets of the centre

Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.

Adapted from Wikipedia (Vipiteno), Wikivoyage (Vipiteno). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Local food & wine

KobakoSemmelknödel CC BY-SA 2.5
CanederliDishBread dumplings, celebrated in twenty variations at a September festival

Adapted from Wikivoyage (Vipiteno). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where to sleep

32 places to stay within 3 km

Hotels 23
B&Bs and guest houses 8
Hostels 1

Thermal baths nearby

Thermal spa: Therme Meran · ~1 h 01 by car