The Most Beautiful Castles and Palaces
Record! Nowhere else can so many palaces, castles, and grand residences be found as in South Tyrol. Imposing, they sit enthroned on cliffs or dream secret dreams nestled on vineyard bedecked hillsides and hidden in forests. Many are open to the public - home to museums, collections, and restaurants. Ceremonial halls and castle chapels, towers and walkways behind castle battlements tell tales of knights and courtly love, of mediæval gallantry, of pomp and splendor ...
From a promontory that juts out on the slopes of the Mutspitz, Schloss Tirol castle (photo above) looks out over Meran. From the hotel, you can look onto this ancestral seat of the Counts of Tyrol who gave the region its name. It’s only a short, day-trip to other famous castles and palaces: Schloss Juval castle, Reinhold Messner‘s crown jewel, towers high above mouth of Schnals valley, or you might visit Churburg castle in upper Vinschgau:
From a promontory that juts out on the slopes of the Mutspitz, Schloss Tirol castle (photo above) looks out over Meran. From the hotel, you can look onto this ancestral seat of the Counts of Tyrol who gave the region its name. It’s only a short, day-trip to other famous castles and palaces: Schloss Juval castle, Reinhold Messner‘s crown jewel, towers high above mouth of Schnals valley, or you might visit Churburg castle in upper Vinschgau:
