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At Bolzano Bozen...
| CABLE CARS: THE WORLD'S OLDEST AND NEWEST |
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... that the world's very first passenger cable car has been transporting holiday-makers from Bolzano Bozen up to the Colle-Kohlern (3.610 ft) since 1908?
... while just across the valley the gondola lift serving the Renon /Ritten incorporates cutting-edge technology and whisks passengers from the town up to Soprabolzano/Oberbozen (3.940 ft) in just 12 minutes. |
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WINE TOWN
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| ... nestling amid a spectacular vinespcape, Bolzano Bozen is a wine town like few others? As an old saying goes “if Venice floats on water, Bolzano Bozen floats on wine”. Vineyards reach from the heart of the town up to distinctly Alpine scenery yielding an amazing diversity of wine. |
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| MOZART |
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... Mozart senior and "Amadeus" spent a night here in 1772 on their way to Milan for the first performance of "Lucio Silla". Confined to his room by bad weather and disgruntled by the unfriendly hospitality he met with, Mozart cheered himself up by composing his string quartet KV 155. It came to ben known as the "Bozen Quartet" and was included in his famous Milanese Quartets.
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| CASANOVA |
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| ... the dashing Venetian nobleman, Giacomo Casanova, probably stayed here under a false name in October 1756 on his way to Munich, having escaped from Piombi prison. The event provided the inspiration for the excellent novel by the Hungarian Sàndor Màrai ‘Casanova in Bolzano Bozen’, a best-seller in Italy in 2000. |
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| PASOLINI |
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... Bolzano Bozen is a cinematic town: Pier Paolo Pasolini filmed various outdoor scenes in his ‘Decameron’ (1971) in the Municipal Museum and Runkelstein Castle; the town and its environs have formed the set for various other films, including ‘Ivanhoe’ (1952) with Liz Taylor (Sigmundskron Castle); ‘Mussolini and I’ (1983) by Alberto Negrin; ‘Cinque giorni di tempesta’ (1997) by Francesco Calogero; ‘Die Walsche’ (1986) by Werner Masten; ‘Le affinità elettive’ by Gianni Amico (1979), ‘Fraeulein Else’ in Hotel Laurin; and numerous minor films.
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MAX VALIER
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| ... the astronomer, aerospace pioneer and rocket scientist Max Valier was born here in 1895? That in the 1929 he set a new world speed record of 400 kilometres per hour with a rocket-propelled vehicle on the frozen Lake Starnberg near Munich? Today an observatory on a mountain high above Bolzano Bozen and a crater on the moon bear his name. |
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FAMOUS HORSES
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... one of Bolzano Bozen's three cable cars connects the town with the rolling Salten plateau where the village og Hafling is located. It was there that a local mare was crossed with an Arabian stallion called El Bedawi in 1874 and bore a stallion called "Folie". Today "Haflingers" are among the world's favourite riding horses, famous for their good nature and patience with children.
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