Leasure tips for your holidays in Südtirol

Castle Trauttmansdorff is home to the only museum of tourism in South Tyrol, "Touriseum". All around the castle, the Trauttmansdorff gardens act as a stage setting for the world of plants, providing a world of endless fascination for flower lovers and botany enthusiasts.

The provincial museum for culture and heritage lies within the castle. The museum’s aims are to promote research and representation of Tyrol’s history, to create a permanent collection, to support scientific research into the history of this land as well as to cooperate with institutions of a similar nature.

In the heart in Meran, set in a Mediterranean countryside park you will find the new Meran Spas, where a heavenly oasis of relaxation and wellbeing with myriad water-attractions unfurls over an area of 7.650 m².

Over 5,000 years ago a man climbed to the icy heights of the Schnalstaler glacier, where he met his death. In 1991, he was discovered by chance: Together with his clothes and equipment, mummified, frozen – an archaeological sensation and a unique snapshot of the life of a copper-age man. Following many years of research by highly specialised research teams, the mummy and his belongings have been on public display at South Tyrol’s Museum of Archaeology since May 1998.