How to reach Brunico
Culinary art:
– Pur Südtirol
Activities:
– climbing centre
– Tandemflights | Plan de Corones
Attractions:
– Messner Mountain Museum RIPA
– Folklore Museum
– LUMEN
– Peace bell
– Aurino Floodplain Forest Biotope
The little city of Brunico-Bruneck is the geographical, cultural, and economic center of the Val Pusteria-Pustertal valley. With its numerous sights worth seeing, festivals, and top events, Brunico is the point of attraction for visitors of all ages.
Brunico is at an elevation of 835 m (2,740 ft.) above sea level, in the midst of a broad valley basin, surrounded by tall mountains: the medieval city is bordered on the north by the Valle Aurina-Ahrntal with its glaciers of the Zillertal Alps, and on the south by the Val Badia-Gadertal with its peaks of the Dolomites.
History:
The first mention of Bruneck in a document dates back to 1256. Around 1250, the bishop of Bressanone-Brixen, Count Bruno of Wullenstätten and Kirchberg, built a fortress on the Schlossberg hill, thus laying the cornerstone for the city that would then be historically documented in 1256. As the only city in the Val Pusteria, it soon became the economic center through lively trade, but it also subsequently developed into a cultural center.
Trade and industry blossomed in the city, but later it was above all else handicrafts which flourished. Today, Brunico has 16,000 inhabitants and an area of 5,000 hectares (19 square miles). The municipality of Brunico, along with the surrounding villages of Riscone-Reischach, S. Giorgio-St. Georgen, Stegona-Stegen, Villa S. Caterina-Aufhofen, Teodone-Dietenheim, Lunes-Luns, and Ameto-Amaten, offers vacationers some five thousand guest beds. On top of that, Brunico is the shopping center for the entire Val Pusteria, and today, the via Centrale-Stadtgasse is among the most beautiful shopping streets in all of South Tyrol-Südtirol.
Shopping:
cloudy skies are the perfect reason to slip into that shopping mood with a clear conscience. Brunico’s historical via Centrale-Stadtgasse is among the loveliest shopping streets in all of South Tyrol-Südtirol: colorful façades offer just the right scenery to the many shops. Countless shop windows juxtapose the youthful and trendy next to the traditional and venerable, the delicious next to the beautiful, the useful next to the luxurious.
Cafés put their homemade pastries on display in their cases and small bars serve canapés along with an aperitif – so that those who really can’t suffer shopping are pampered while it seems that their companions will never again return from all the strolling, looking, and trying.
Gastronomy:
What is served up is the down-to-earth, the creative, the innovative – the main thing is that it is cooked with passion and served in a fitting setting. And it is not just in downtown Brunico-Bruneck that gourmets will end up having too many choices. The pizzeria, the steakhouse, the traditional wood-paneled Tyrolean Stube, the gourmet restaurant – just stop anywhere for an aperitif and you can certainly get the right advice concerning into which culinary world the evening should lead.
Contact:
Tourismusverein Bruneck Kronplatz
Rathausplatz 7
39031 Bruneck
+39 0474-555722