If you don’t like dead colours, but are looking for a cheerful and carefree fairytale, Sterzing is right for you. This colourful municipality in the province of Bolzano would be the ideal place for a fantasy film. Colourful houses, shopping streets, picturesque medieval squares and a mountain landscape that seems to be within reach: the Alpine town of Vipiteno in Valle Isarco enchants its visitors with a unique charm. A few years ago, the small town was even named one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. The picturesque main street, formed by the Old Town and the New Town, still shines in the glow of the late Middle Ages and invites you to linger. The town hall, with its Gothic council chamber, which today also houses the city council, bears witness to the prosperity of the 15th century, when Sterzing was in its heyday with mineral extraction.
In the south of the city culture lovers will find the parish church "Our Lady of the Marsh", a real jewel and the complex of the Teutonic Order which today houses the Multscher Museum and the City Museum. Take a look at the life of the Teutonic Knights of the past and admire parts of the masterpiece by the sculptor Ulm. In the parish church you can admire the original figures of the famous Multscher altar.
