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A street lamp decorated with geranium flowers along the Talvera Bridge

The Talvera Bridge, which links the historic centre and Piazza della Vittoria

The Victory Monument in Bolzano, in Piazza della Vittoria: a temple/arch adorned with tall supporting columns, a work of Rationalist architecture

The bas-relief of the winged victory and the Latin inscription “Hic patriae fines siste signa hinc ceteros excolvimvs lingva legibvs artibvs” in Piazza della Vittoria

Detail of the Victory Monument in Piazza della Vittoria, adorned with lictor’s fasces

The flower-filled plots in Piazza della Vittoria, with the monument of the same name in the background

A bronze sculpture in Piazza della Vittoria, with the Monument to Victory in the background

The Victory Monument in Piazza della Vittoria, designed by the architect Marcello Piacentini

The Cassa di Risparmio building at the junction of Via Talvera and Via Museo, redesigned by Francesco Rossi in the Italian Rationalist style in 1938

Traditional South Tyrolean roofs on Via Talvera

A row of bay windows, a characteristic feature of the area on Via Cassa di Risparmio

Wooden bridge over the Talvera

The Bolzano Civic Museum, seen from the rear, was built in the early 1900s

The long Via Museo, lined with shops and historic noble palaces

The Fountain of Neptune in Piazza delle Erbe, depicting the god of the sea with three dolphins atop large bronze shell-shaped basins

The Fountain of Neptune (1777), also known as the Gabelwirt (the innkeeper with the fork), in Piazza delle Erbe

Detail of the Fountain of Neptune in Piazza delle Erbe

The shop windows of a clothes shop in Via dei Portici

Via dei Portici, with a shop window featuring a mannequin on the left

Houses with bay windows on Via dei Portici

Via dei Portici, the city’s oldest and best-known street

A votive statue of the Virgin Mary hanging on the side façade of the chemist’s on the corner of Via dei Portici and Piazza del Grano

The façades of some of the houses in Piazza del Municipio, decorated with Rococo-style stucco

Piazza del Municipio and the entrance to Via dei Bottai

The bay window of a house on Via dei Bottai

The façade of the Town Hall (1907), built in the Neo-Baroque style, in Piazza del Municipio

The Town Hall and a street lamp in Piazza del Municipio

On the left is the Casa della Pesa, with frescoes on its façade in Piazza del Grano

An ice-cream van in Piazza del Grano, with the Casa della Pesa in the background

Parish Square and the distinctive dome of a building

The BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) building in Piazza Walther Von Der Vogelweide and the entrance to Viale della Stazione (Bahnhofallee)

Dr Julius Perathoner Street and the coach station (Autobahnhof)

Dr Julius Perathoner Street and Café Mozart on the left

A cubic glass and steel building housing the Chamber of Commerce, designed by architect Wolfgang Simmerle in Piazza Giuseppe Verdi

Piazza Del Dogana and a fountain in the centre

Castel Roncolo on Via Sarentino, the famous castle, stands on a slab of porphyry

The inner courtyard of Castel Roncolo, the famous manor house on Via Sarentino

The inner courtyard of Castel Roncolo, built in 1237 on Via Sarentino

A section of Castel Roncolo on Via Sarentino, the illustrated manor house

The statue of the Madonna in the centre of the town’s Piazza della Madonna, erected in 1909

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