Franciscan Monastery
A touch manner north of Piazza delle Erbe stands the Franciscan monastery. Its church dates to the late 1300s, with a vaulted ceiling from the 15th century and 20th-century stained-glass windows. Inside the female Chapel is a first-class overdue Gothic altar of carved and painted wooden with the aid of Hans Klocker, from approximately 1500. Within the adjacent 14th-century Gothic cloisters are frescoes of various ages, while the St. Erhard chapel displays a cycle of early Gothic frescoes from the 14th century.
Renon Cable Car
One of the favorite activities in Bolzano is trip the Renon Cable vehicle from Bolzano to the plateau of Soprabolzano (Oberbozen in German). In just 12 mins, the 4560-meter cableway, which opened in 2009, rises 950 meters with perspectives of the town giving manner to panoramic perspectives of the Dolomites. Gondolas depart each 4 minutes and preserve 30 passengers, so even at busy times there may be little or no wait. You can also take motorcycles or strollers on board. On arriving in Soprabolzano, comply with signs for the Freud-promenade, a taking walks path punctuated with the aid of prices from Sigmund Freud. The base station for the cable automobile is ready a 10-minute walk from Bolzano's Piazza Walther.
Cathedral
On the southwest nook of the rectangular is the Gothic parish church (14th-15th centuries), which is also the cathedral. It has an fashionable spire, sixty five meters tall, of open filigree carved in sandstone, built from 1504 to 1519 and increasing from a putting roof of patterned tiles. Walk across the church to peer its doorways - a Romanesque portal with lions supporting columns (and the 1475 fresco of the Madonna); a lovely bronze door; and on the north facet, the engraved Wine Door. That is one of the greatest excessive Gothic portals within the Tyrol.
Inside the indoors is a Gothic pulpit carved of sandstone and supported by means of a unmarried pillar, a Baroque polychrome marble altar, and a Baroque chapel with 18th-century frescoes. Some place else are frescoes from the 14th and fifteenth centuries. The treasury is really worth traveling for its beautiful examples of 18th-century gold paintings and sacred artwork, in particular the gold monstrance of the cathedral bell tower, 136 centimeters tall.
Castel Roncolo
High on a precipitous crag simply out of doors Bolzano, the thirteenth-century Roncolo fort, also known by means of its German name of Runkelstein, consists of an mind-blowing treasury of 14th- and fifteenth-century frescoes. Not like maximum that live on from that technology, the Roncolo frescoes depict now not non secular topics, however scenes of normal court docket life. Men hunt and participate in chivalric competitions, and girls watch from galleries, supplying a glimpse into existence in a medieval castle and the get dressed of the instances. Different frescoes make literary references to memories of King Arthur or Tristan and Isolde. They're in remarkably precise situation and represent the biggest and quality preserved collection of medieval non-spiritual frescoes surviving nowadays. Getting to the fort is straightforward through the loose buses from Piazza Walther.
Messner Mountain Museum
The halls, courtyards, or even turrets of Firmian citadel are full of exhibits, art, and relics that carry the surrounding peaks to life. Mountaineer Reinhold Messner's collections gift a totally rounded picture of the relationship among the Dolomites and the human beings who have lived amongst them and attempted to triumph over them. It follows the records of mountaineering, the Dolomites' herbal history, and the affects of the mountains on faith and way of life from the earliest ascents into present day alpine tourism.
