Bolzano is an Italian city, but it has a definite Austrian charm to it - after all, the capital of the autonomous region of South Tyrol has been a crossroads for Italian and Austrian cultural influences for centuries.
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Today, it is also home of “Ötzi”, the natural mummy found in the Alps in 1991 and preserved in a local museum. The Victory Monument, erected on orders by Mussolini, is a reminder of the destructiveness of strict national borders. Bolzano also has two fine castles to visit, Castle Runkelstein and Castle Maretsch.
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