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  Hotel Alto Adige Hotel Dolomiti Alto Adige Dolomiti Alto Adige Posthotel San Candido Hotel Dolomiti
L’estate in Alto Adige a San Candido nelle Dolomiti offre degli eventi di vacanza diversi.
Il a San Candido ed Alto Adige è il punto ideale per gli ospiti che vogliono fare dei giretti nelle Dolomiti: gite in bicicletta, gite con il Mountainbike e escursioni nelle Dolomiti nell’Alto Adige.
Nelle Dolomiti in Alto Adige ci sono tantissime passeggiate in piena aria che sono degli eventi speciali.
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 Trentino Alto Adige - DiWineTaste
According to an administrative point of view, the region is divided in two provinces, the northern one, at the feet of Alps with strong cultural and traditional German influence, Alto Adige or Sudtirolo (Südtirol in the local language), and the southern one, with culture and tradition similar to the Italian ones, Trentino.
Trentino Alto Adige is a region with a strong and historical tradition in the production of red wines, however the region is mainly known for its excellent white wines, which take advantage of the cool climate giving a pleasing and lively acid hint.
The denominations of Alto Adige are: Alto Adige or Südtiroler which includes the sub areas Colli di Bolzano, Meranese di Collina, Santa Maddalena, Terlano, Valle d'Isarco and Val Venosta, Caldaro or Lago di Caldaro and Valdadige.
www.diwinetaste.com /dwt/en2006052.php   (2022 words)

  
 Alto Adige Changes Its Image
Alto Adige (also known as Südtirol) was then part of Austria and began to be a major supplier of red wines to other lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Alto Adige winemakers and growers are seriously zeroing in on vineyard work to improve quality.
Alto Adige is one of the smallest producers in Italy, and growers have planted a great number of varieties.
www.winesandvines.com /feature_june_06_alto.html   (1811 words)

  
 Wine Review Online - Alto Adige: Land of Surprises
Alto Adige may be one of Europe's smallest wine growing areas, with approximately 12,600 acres of vines, but in terms of quality, it is increasingly looking more like Goliath than David.
Alto Adige (Sudtirol): This appellation encompasses 69% of the region's vineyard area and is by far the most important DOC distinction when it is accompanied by the name of a grape.
Alto Adige Valle Isarco: Representing about 5% of the total vineyard area, this cool winegrowing zone extends from the Brenner Pass to Bolzano, and is most known for aromatic, fruity white wines.
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 Trentino-Alto Adige
The name Alto Adige belongs to the northern territory of the region with the higher part of the river Adige ("alto" means "high").
In course of past decades two important changes took place in Trentino-Alto Adige; the first one is industrialization of the territory around Trento and Bolzano, favored by the wealth of hydroelectrical energy, and the second one is development of tourism especially in Alto Adige thanks to the beauty of mountains and healthy climate.
The reasons for the latter phenomenon is blooming tourism industry permitting to live well even in the smallest settlements and cultural and property traditions keeping families together and firm on the land of their ancestors.
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 Licata Vini: Alto Adige - Trentino   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trentino-Alto Adige ranks 11th among the regions in size (13.620 ha.)and 16th in population.
Alto Adige, around the city of Bolzano or Bozen to the north, is better known as Sudtirol to the prominent German-speaking population.
Alto Adige's native Lagrein and Trentino's Teroldego stand with northern Italy's most distinguished vines, making wines of singular personality.
www.licata.be /streek/altoadigeUK.htm   (772 words)

  
 Trentino - Alto Adige
Directly south, between the Merano dip and the Rolle Pass, stretch the porphyric Alto Adige plateau and gentle hills that contrast with the rugged mountains to the north.
In contrast, in Alto Adige people are strongly attached to the land and an unusual law of inheritance and farm ownership (the maso chiuso) meaning that land cannot be split up among heirs but passes in its entirety to the eldest son, absolute head of a family-run farm, tends to reduce population drift.
From Bolzano (see specific chapter) it is possible to follow the Isarco and after thirty kilometres come to Chiusa, dominated by the Benedictine abbey of Sabiona; slightly farther on is Bressanone, a very interesting little town with a beautiful 13th century Duomo and characteristic buildings dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.
www.italy1.it /trentinoaltoadige.htm   (2644 words)

  
 Buying property and real estate in Trentino Alto Adige
Real estate in Trentino-Alto Adige could be a wooden chalet, a base for skiing, or an old town house in one of the comfortable capitals of Bolzano and Trento.
In fact Trentino-Alto Adige has the second lowest population density in Italy (only Valle d’Aosta has fewer people per square mile), with the mountain folk having deserted the peaks since the 19th century.
Property tends to be rather cheaper in Trentino than Alto Adige because of different property inheritance laws, with many rural estates being subdivided between families, down into ever-smaller parcels of land.
www.keyitaly.com /article/trentino-altoadige-guide   (1105 words)

  
 Amazing wines from Italy's Alto Adige - Food - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An Alto Adige winery, even if small in size, is apt to produce many different wines made from many different grapes, including cabernet and pinot noir, chardonnay and Gewurztraminer, pinot blanc, merlot, sauvignon blanc and more (including a sometimes stunning local variety called lagrein).
Alto Adige's distinction comes from all these varieties growing near each other in a small region.
Alto Adige is unique because it's a self-contained, but in no sense isolated place, with uniquely impressive wines.
www.washtimes.com /food/20061003-093813-8510r.htm   (731 words)

  
 In Italy Online - Trentino Alto Adige
Laid out along the country's northeastern border with Austria, it is a breathtaking land of saw-toothed ridges and snow-capped peaks, alpine meadows and glittering waterfalls, popular ski resorts and immaculate medieval towns.
he many official mountain climbing schools of Trentino Alto Adige offer you a chance to climb or hike in a group led by an expert guide.
f you are a skier, one of the best ways to see Trentino Alto Adige is the Dolomite Superski pass, which offers access to 650 miles of ski runs for $50 a day.
www.initaly.com /regions/taa/taa.htm   (708 words)

  
 Colterenzio at Italian Wine Merchants
In the Northernmost province of Italy lies the cultural crossroads of Trentino-Alto Adige.
In fact, German is still spoken and is used for many of the wine names; and for this population, Alto Adige is known as Südtirol.
An exemplary Alto Adige Gewürztraminer, this wonderfully round, balanced wine is made from grapes from the sun-soaked slopes of the Girlan vineyard.
www.italianwinemerchant.com /IWM_Weekly_e-letter/IWM_9_30_04_Alto_Adige.htm   (1369 words)

  
 The Wine News Magazine - Alto Adige - Italy's Alsace
Both Alsace and the Alto Adige retain strong remnants of a German-speaking culture, and both are notable wine-producing provinces.
The acknowledged pacesetter for the rising fortunes of the Alto Adige is Alois Lageder of Bolzano, whose winemaking practices have established benchmarks for other producers in the region.
Other noteworthy white grapes from Alto Adige are pinot grigio, perhaps the variety that is most widely recognized by American consumers (again, very distinct in character from Alsatian pinot gris) and, on a much smaller scale, grüner veltliner, a grape that now plays a starring role in Austria's viticulture.
www.thewinenews.com /febmar99/altoadige.html   (1622 words)

  
 Trentino Alto Adige travel guide
Trentino-Alto Adige is a region made up by two provinces: Trentino around the city of Trento, and Alto Adige, or South Tirol, around the city of Bolzano.
Alto Adige is officially bilingual: both Italian and German are spoken.
Trento was put on the map by the "Consiglio" of Trento the treaty between the papal power and the South german princes resulting in the contra-reformation.
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 Vacanza Alto Adige :: Vacanza montagna :: Vacanza Dolomiti
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 ITALIA Regions of Italy - Trentino-Alto Adige
It is a mainly mountainous province, rich in rivers, torrents and numerous lakes, clusters and chains of mountains of singular beauty, divided in two by the valley of the river Adige.
Many alpine valleys break away from the valley of Adige: the Valsugana, the Vallarsa, the Val di Non, the Val di Sole, the Val di Cembra, Fiemme and Fassa; inside instead the valley Giudicarie and Rendena.
Alto Adige (South Tirol), the most northern region of Italy, in the heart of the alpine circle, has a surface area of 7,400 sq.
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 Arco, Trentino-Alto Adige - Picture - MSN Encarta
Arco, Trentino-Alto Adige - Picture - MSN Encarta
The picturesque town of Arco, with its stone buildings, small squares, and fountains, is located in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of northeastern Italy.
On a cliff top overlooking the town are the remains of a 12th-century castle.
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 Alto Adige Südtirol - Il sito ufficiale del turismo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
L'Alto Adige non si dedica soltanto alle famiglie, alle coppie o ai bambini.
Una vacanza in montagna, a contatto con la natura, vicino agli animali da fattoria e al loro mondo, lontano dal traffico: è ciò che offrono gli agriturismo dell'Alto Adige.
Questa settimana una novità che collega due fra le aree sciistiche più belle dell'Alto Adige: la cabinovia Piculin che da San Vigilio di Marebbe porta in Alta Badia.
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 Trentino-Alto Adige   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Residents of Trentino, the main city in the southern part of the region, mainly speak Italian, while the natives of Adige (sometimes called South Tirol) in the north predominantly speak German.
Made in Alto Adige, especially Val Venosta, Speck dell’Alto Adige, or country bacon, traditionally is smoked over a wood fire and then cured for an average of 20 to 24 weeks.
Alto Adige, with its crystal clear water from the Eastern Alps, became an ideal area for the production of birra, which began here as early as the 900s.
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 TangoItalia - Trentino Alto Adige - Sudtirol food
Made in Alto Adige (Südtirol in German), especially Val Venosta, Speck dell’Alto Adige, or country bacon, traditionally is smoked over a wood fire and then cured for an average of 20 to 24 weeks.
And if there’s no time to cook, pair a generous slice of speck with a few cucumbers, a spoonful of horseradish sauce, and a glass of Blauburgunder, the pinot noir wine produced in the Alto Adige region.
Alto Adige, with its crystal clear water from the Eastern Alps, became an ideal area for the production of birra, which began here as early as the 900s.
www.aaanetserv.com /c_trentino.html   (408 words)

  
 Trentino alto adige Hotels - Hotel in Trentino alto adige - ITWG.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the extreme north of Italy, the Trentino Alto Adige is a region in which the presence of a still virgin and uncontaminated, sometimes wild, nature nevertheless offers the opportunity to practice sports activities.
The splendid valleys (Val di Sole, Val di Non, Val Gardena) whose rivers flow from the Adige, contain lakes and streams, as well as olive orchards and vineyards.
Imposing mountain chains dominate the entire region: the Atesine Alps to the north, the Retiche Alps to the west, and the Dolomite mass to the east.
www.itwg.com /rg_trent.asp   (627 words)

  
 Wine and Food - Wine - Wine Regions - Trentino Alto Adige - Made In Italy On Line
Trentino-Alto Adige ranks 11th among the regions in size (13,620 square kilome- tres) and 16th in population (880,000).
Aldo Adige, around the city of Bolzano or Bozen tothe north, is better known as Südtirol to the prominent German-speaking population.
Production of the numerous varietal wines is centred in two large DOC zones: Trentino in the south and Alto Adige or Südtiroler in the north.
www.made-in-italy.com /winefood/wine/regions/trentino.htm   (1093 words)

  
 WineCountry.it - Trentino-Alto Adige Wine Region Italy
The name Alto Adige identifies the northern territory of the region that includes the higher (alto) part of the Adige River.
The first was the rapid industrialization in and around the Trento and Bolzano provinces, stimulated by the construction of hydroelectric plants, bringing with it long-term prosperity to the area.
One main distinction between Trentino and Alto Adige production is the fact that in the northern area the wines are produced mostly by small family-owned and managed wineries that sell their product locally with limited exports to Germany and Austria.
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 Accommodation, rentals and hotels in Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
Trentino is comprised of two areas of legislative and administrative autonomy, Trentino and Alto Adige (SudTirol), and is most known for the wonderful Dolomite (Dolomiti) mountains.
Summer or winter, Trentino offers clean water, pure air and beautiful surroundings, but, again, it is the Alpine Dolomites that come to mind when talking about Trentino Alto Adige, be it walking in the summer or enjoying the 600 kilometes of ski runs (over 300 ski lifts) in the winter.
Le Corbusier described the Dolomites as 'the most beautiful work of architecture in the world', and the memory of the strange pink glow imparted to the peaks by the sun's rays (sunrise and sunset) is not easily forgotten...
www.knowital.com /trentino   (166 words)

  
 Wine and Food - Food - Regional Cooking - Trentino Alto Adige - Made In Italy On Line
This is the area of Trentino - Alto Adige.
Smoked meat reigns in Alto Adige, typical of cold climates, from cattle used to spending long nights outdooes and grazing on fragrant grass in the fields at high altitude.
In Alto Adige "speck" is eaten for breakfast, at noon as an antipasto, and as an afternoon snack.
www.made-in-italy.com /winefood/food/regions/trentino.htm   (959 words)

  
 Trips to Italy | Trip planning and description of Trentino Alto Adige Italy | Travel guide and information of Trentino ...
The Adige River, Italy’s second largest, descends from an alpine lake high in the Dolomites, near the Austrian border, and travels south through the center of Trentino-Alto Adige, creating Valdadige (the Adige Valley).
The natives of Alto Adige and Trentino share an unspoiled nature complemented by a wealth of recreational sports.
Not to miss are the vast, imposing castles in Trentino Alto Adige, most of them are remarkably well preserved, and open to visitors.
www.trips2italy.com /Trentino_Alto_Adige   (277 words)

  
 Secretplaces – Guide to auThentic and romantic Trentino Alto Adige hotels
This is the most northerly region of Italy, in the heart of the Alpine circle.
Trentino is a mainly mountainous province, rich in rivers, torrents and numerous lakes, clusters and chains of mountains of singular beauty, divided in two by the valley of the river Adige, so whatever nationality it chooses to be there is now denying the beauty of the region.
At S. Michele in Adige there is the museum on the practices and customs of the Trento people.
www.secretplaces.com /sp/1/regions/Trentino_Alto_Adige_hotels.asp   (670 words)

  
 Rustico: Trentino-Alto Adige
In mid-March, Trentino-Alto Adige is blanketed in snow.
Rather than pasta or risotto, cooks in Trentino-Alto Adige prefer to prepare polentas made of cornmeal or buckwheat, or hearty soups studded with bread dumplings.
Speck, a smoked Prosciutto from Trentino-Alto Adige in northeastern Italy, is typically served with rye or whole-grain breads and sweet farmhouse butter at the start of a meal.
www.rusticocooking.com /trentino.htm   (390 words)

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