Trentino-Alto Adige Hotels Italy

Trentino-Alto Adige Trentino-Alto Adige is one of Italy’s 20 autonomous regions in northern Italy. The region shares northern borders with Tyrol in Austria and Graubunden in Switzerland to the northwest, and by the two Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto to the west and south. Trentino-Alto Adige has two provinces Trento and Bolzano-Bozen, and is an extremely mountainous area, covering a considerable part of the Dolomites and the southern Alps. The province of Bolzano is all mountainous land, ridges and snow-capped peaks, covered by huge forests and borders on Lombardy to the west. The main river in Bolzano is the Adige and the lowest pass across the Alps, the Brenner Pass, is in the far north of this region on the border with Austria.

Trento has a similar mountainous, forested terrain and has long been a favourite destination for tourists both for skiing and in summer enjoying the countryside – the alpine meadows, valleys and lakes(Lake Garda being the largest). The climate varies from an alpine climate to a subcontinental one, with warm, variable summers and cold snowy winters. The region, formerly part of Austria-Hungary until it was annexed by Italy in 1919 has therefore had a split identity, some parts of the region still feeling themselves to be German (in some villages German is still spoken0 Mussolini offered people in the region the chance to stay and be Italian, and others to take German citizenship and emigrate north.

The majority of the population chose the option to move, and left this rural territory considerably underpopuated. You will see the split in many places having both German and Italian names (such as Bolzano-Bozen or Corno Nero-Schwarzhorn).