Gran Sasso is the highest mountain in the Apennines. Corno Grande reaches 2.912 meters and many others are over 2.500 meters in height.
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Gran Sasso is the highest mountain in the Apennines. Corno Grande reaches 2.912 meters and many others are over 2.500 meters in height.
Bolzano, the provincial capital of South Tyrol, is anything but provincial. Once a stop on the coach route between Italy and the flourishing Austro-Hungarian Empire, this small city is worldly and engaged, a long-time conduit between cultures that has more recently become home to Europe's first trilingual university.
Western outpost of the fossil archipelago of the Dolomites, spaced from the rest of the geological sisters of over 30 km as the crow flies, the Brenta group is wild and majestic.