South Tyrolean Churches and Monasteries

In Tartsch, one finds the legendary Tartscher Bühel with the small church St. Veit. The Bühel rises above the so-called Malser Haide and offers a fantastic view of Mals or Glurns.

The parish church of St. Vigilius is the landmark of the municipality of Kurtatsch. In a side altar in the church is the “weeping“ image of the Sorrowful Mother of God, which is still the destination of numerous pilgrims today.

In 1553, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to the mountain farmer Leonhard Weißensteiner and cured him of his illness. Out of gratitude, he erected a chapel, which became the nucleus of today‘s pilgrimage site.

Just a short distance downstream from Sterzing on the Eisack, Maria Trens is located, a place of pilgrimage known and popular since the Middle Ages.

In the Ahrntal, in the northernmost tip of Italy, is one of the most beautiful and interesting pilgrimage sites in the country.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary with its distinctive tower is the landmark of the South Tyrolean provincial capital Bolzano. The city parish church of Bolzano has also been a bishop‘s church and co-cathedral of the newly created Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen since 1964, with the cathedral chapter remaining in Brixen.

The collegiate church of Innichen, a Romanesque architectural monument. The year is 769: The Bavarian Duke Tassilo III, a cousin of Charlemagne, had succeeded after long and bitter fights in subduing the Slavic tribes invading the Puster Valley...

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In the middle of Sterzing, at the town square, is one of the most interesting sacred buildings of the Eisack valley, the Holy Spirit Hospital Church. From the outside plain and rather inconspicuous, it harbors wonderful, extremely artistic frescoes on the inside, which are among the most significant testimonies of the Puster Valley school of painting.

One of the oldest and most impressive sacred buildings in the Alpine region can be found in Mals in the upper Vinschgau. The small Romanesque St. Benedict Church is located today on the western edge of the town and was probably built in the 8th century.