Bolzano Town Sites

Alter of Bolzano Cathedral

I packed a lot into my first day in Bolzano. I stopped by the cathedral of Bolzano which is in the city center. The foundation of the church is from the 4th century. The church was badly damaged in 1944 during WWII  by Allied bombings. Since 2010, the cathedral has a special carillon of bells (Glockenspiel), the work of the artist Ivo Radakovich made by the famous Grassmayr foundry of Innsbruck. The bells can be heard every Saturday and Sunday at 11 am. Bolzano seems more like an Austrian town then an Italian one. German is spoken as much or more than Italian. Menus are in both German and Italian. There a quite a few German and Austrian tourists.

Otzi (Picture from Internet)

My final stop of the day was the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology which houses Otzi, the ice man.  Pictures of him are forbidden so the picture on the left of from the Internet. The picture the is below and right is one that I took. It what they think he looked like when he died. Ötzi was found on 19 September 1991 by two German tourists, at an elevation of 3,210 metres (10,530 ft) on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border. Scientists have determined he lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE. - Nancy

What Otzi probably looked like. Picture taken at the museum.