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Things to see in Glurns
In Glurns the atlas lists 7 historic places: 3 fortresses and towers, 3 museums and 1 historic village.
Of these, 1 list opening hours.
Don’t miss: Glurns, municipality in South Tyrol, Italy.
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The town
Glurns is in the upper Vinschgau valley of South Tyrol. It is the smallest town in the region with around 900 inhabitants with the overwhelming majority of them being native German speakers.
Glorenza was incorporated as a city in 1309. It was completely razed to the ground in 1499, after the battle of Calva, during the Swabian war. After the war, the Emperor Maximilian decided to rebuild it and constructed its city walls - which have survived to the present day, and are one of the main items of interest in the city. Later on Glorenza experienced long centuries of prosperity as a mercantile city, thanks to the trade of rock salt which originated from the region.
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7 places
Fortresses and towers 3
Museums 3
Historic villages 1
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Getting there
Bolzano-Dolomiti Airport. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from Lugano and Rome. At certain times of the year, there are weekly connections to Vienna.
From Bolzano, the state highway 38 (SS38) will get one into Glurns via road. The SS40 also connects Glurns to other towns in the Vinschgau region, as well as the western part of Austrian Tyrol. Finally the SS41 brings in traffic from the nearby Swiss border; a twisty but fairly broad and direct route links Glurns to the major cities in the north of the country via the Flüela pass.
Stelvio Pass. A world-famous mountain pass for drivers.
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What to see, according to Wikivoyage
City walls. Glorenza is the only South Tyrolean city that has intact city walls. Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg built these. They have semicircular doors and towers. The patrol paths, seven watchtowers, three gates make up the defensive structure of the city which, despite the predominance of sixteenth-century architectural forms, reveals the Roman origin of the settlement
Parish church of San Pancrazio. The current church is from the end of the 15th century; the ancient Roman influences in the church architecture is in its bell tower. The Baroque-style onion dome is a seventeenth-century addition. The north wall of the bell tower shows a large fresco of the Last Judgment of the school of Michael Pacher from 1496.
Churburg (Castel Coira).
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