๐ฎ๐น Bolzano is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The greater metro area is one of the largest urban centres within the Alps.
Bolzano is the seat of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where lectures and seminars are held in English, German, and Italian. The city is also home to the Italian Army's Alpini High Command (COMALP) and some of its combat and support units.
In the 2020 version of the annual ranking of quality of life in Italian cities, Bolzano was ranked joint first for quality of life alongside Bologna.
Along with other Alpine towns in South Tyrol, Bolzano engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention. The Convention aims to promote and achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. Consequently, Bolzano was awarded Alpine Town of the Year 2009.
Bolzano is considered a bridge between Northern Europe and Southern Europe due to the three spoken languages in South Tyrol (Italian, German, and Ladin) and the confluence of Italian and German-Austrian culture.
The city is located in the basin where the Sarntal, Eisacktal, and the Adige Valley with their rivers, Talfer, Eisack, and Adige, meet. In the Middle Ages, the two main Alpine crossings, the Via Claudia Augusta over Reschenpass and the Brenner route over Brenner Pass, met in Bolzano. Thus, the city was very important for the trade. The nearest big cities are 58ย km (36 miles) (Trento) and 118ย km (73 miles) (Innsbruck) away.
Economy The city thrives on a mix of old and new high-quality intensive agriculture (including wine, fruit, and dairy products), tourism, traditional handicraft (wood, ceramics), and advanced services. Heavy industry (machinery, automotive, and steel) installed during the 1930s has now been mostly dismantled. The local economy is very dependent on the public sector and especially the provincial government.
Bolzano is the biggest city in South Tyrol, which is an autonomous province in Northern Italy with a special statute. This statute preserves the rights of the German-speaking minority in Italy. This unique system was admired by the Dalai Lama, who visited the city on several occasions to study a possible application in Tibet. It has also been presented as role model for the successful and fair resolution of inter-ethnic conflict to other regions of the world.
Exhibition Bolzano The trade shows and conferences of the exhibition are concentrated on topics relating to the economies of Alpine countries. There is thus a great focus on trade show subjects within the economic competence of South Tyrol and Trentino. The main focuses of dining and leisure time, sports, agriculture, and specific Alpine industries attract an annual total of over 3,000 exhibitors and over 230,000 visitors from all over Europe.
Italian German Business Forum Bozen-Bolzano
Since 2011, the city hosts the Italo-Germanic Business Forum, which brings together the leaders of the Italian and German economies โ Confindustria and the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie โ in the Mercantile Palace to address issues related to the international crisis.
Companies
Large companies in Bolzano are: โข THUN AG โข FERCAM AG โข Spar (retailer) Italia SPA โข Acciaierie Valbruna SPA โข Iveco SPA โข Oberalp AG โข Alperia AG
Research
NOI Techpark
NOI Techpark is on a 12-hectare (30 acre) site in the south of Bolzano, on premises formerly home to aluminium works. The "Nature of Innovation" concept contains: innovation imitating nature. This concept that NOI Techpark is based on, where research institutes, companies and start-ups from South Tyrol and all over the globe will work together to prepare the ground for a sustainable development.
Working with representatives from South Tyrol's business and research communities, BLS and TIS innovation park have developed the park's "Nature of Innovation" positioning title, the initials of which give the park its name: NOI. The name reflects two meanings in South Tyrol: depending on how you want to pronounce it, NOI can either sound like the Italian word for "we" or the South Tyrolean dialect word for "new". A special focus lies on those fields: โข Alpine Technology โข Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency โข Food Technology โข ICT & Automation
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
The Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, founded in October 1997, is actively involved in basic and applied research projects through its five faculties, of which four are located in Bolzano. The university is engaged in a multitude of scientific and technological areas, in addition to different disciplines belonging to Humanities.
Eurac Research
The Eurac Research is a private research centre headquartered in Bolzano. The research facility was founded in 1992 and initially had 12 employees. Meanwhile, the Center for Applied Research has more than 300 employees. The topics of this institution include, for example, "Liveable Regions", "Diversity as Added Value" and "Healthy Society". The research has focused more on the Alpine region. Since 2002, the site has been located on Drusus Street, in the former fascist "GIL" building, which was then extensively renovated and integrated with modern buildings. In 2018, the research facility will lead the terraXcube in the NOI Techpark Bolzano. The terraXcube is a research infrastructure that can simulate the most extreme climatic conditions on earth. Air pressure, humidity and solar radiation can be simulated and changed simultaneously in one room. The aim is to investigate how humans react to extreme climatic conditions. Even machines can be tested in this simulator.
Fraunhofer Italia
Fraunhofer Italia is a subsidiary of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and is headquartered in Bolzano. The company was founded in 2009 and since then specializes in areas such as "Automation and Mechatronic Engineering" and "Process Engineering in Construction". The Organization for Applied Research seeks to help small and medium-sized enterprises in the region through charitable research. Since 2017, the research facility has been based in the Technology Park in Bolzano South.
Bolzano has a population of over 107,407 people. Bolzano also forms the centre of the wider South Tyrol Province which has a population of over 531,178 people. Bolzano is ranked #751 for startups with a score of 0.19.
To set up a UBI Lab for Bolzano see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Bolzano is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Music see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Bolzano has links with:
๐ท๐ด Bacฤu, Romania ๐ฆ๐น Bad Aussee, Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Bad Reichenhall, Germany ๐ฎ๐น Belluno, Italy ๐ฎ๐น Bressanone, Italy ๐จ๐ญ Brig-Glis, Switzerland ๐ซ๐ท Chambรฉry, France ๐ซ๐ท Chamonix, France ๐ฉ๐ช Erlangen, Germany ๐ซ๐ท Gap, France ๐จ๐ญ Herisau, Switzerland ๐ธ๐ฎ Idrija, Slovenia ๐บ๐ฆ Koziatyn, Ukraine ๐ฎ๐น Lecco, Italy ๐ฎ๐น Maratea, Italy ๐ฎ๐น Morbegno, Italy ๐ซ๐ท Passy, France ๐ฎ๐น Sondrio, Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Sonthofen, Germany ๐ญ๐บ Sopron, Hungary ๐ฎ๐น Tolmezzo, Italy ๐ธ๐ฎ Tolmin, SloveniaUNESCO Creative Cities for Music include: ๐ฆ๐บ Adelaide ๐ฐ๐ฟ Almaty ๐ต๐น Amarante ๐ฎ๐ฉ Ambon ๐ณ๐ฟ Auckland ๐ง๐ฆ Banja Luka ๐ฎ๐ณ Benares ๐ฌ๐ผ Bissau ๐จ๐ด Bogotรก ๐ฎ๐น Bologna ๐ฎ๐น Bolzano ๐จ๐ฌ Brazzaville ๐จ๐ฟ Brno ๐ต๐ฑ Bydgoszcz ๐ป๐ช Caracas ๐ฎ๐ณ Chennai ๐ป๐ณ Da Lat ๐ฒ๐ฆ Essaouira ๐จ๐ฑ Frutillar ๐ง๐ช Ghent ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Glasgow ๐ฎ๐ณ Gwalior ๐ฏ๐ต Hamamatsu ๐ฉ๐ช Hannover ๐จ๐บ Havana ๐ต๐น Idanha-a-Nova ๐ฒ๐พ Ipoh ๐บ๐ธ Kansas City ๐ต๐ฑ Katowice ๐ท๐บ Kazan ๐ฏ๐ฒ Kingston ๐น๐ท Kirsehir ๐ต๐น Leiria ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Liverpool ๐ช๐ธ Lliria ๐ฉ๐ช Mannheim ๐ซ๐ท Metz ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexicali ๐จ๐ญ Montreux ๐ฒ๐ฝ Morelia ๐ธ๐ช Norrkรถping ๐ฎ๐น Pesaro ๐น๐น Port of Spain ๐จ๐ป Praia ๐ต๐ธ Ramallah ๐ง๐ท Salvador ๐ฎ๐ท Sanandaj ๐น๐ท ลanlฤฑurfa ๐ฉ๐ด Santo Domingo ๐ช๐ธ Seville ๐น๐ญ Suphan Buri ๐ฐ๐ท Tongyeong ๐ซ๐ท Toulouse ๐จ๐ด Valledupar ๐จ๐ฑ Valparaรญso ๐ฎ๐ณ Varanasi ๐ญ๐ท Varaลพdin ๐ท๐บ Veliky Novgorod ๐ญ๐บ Veszprรฉm ๐ท๐ธ Vranje
๐ซ๐ท Les Sables-d'Olonne 46.496
๐จ๐ญ Bourg-en-Lavaux 46.5
๐ญ๐บ Nagykanizsa 46.517
๐จ๐ฆ Sault Ste. Marie 46.518
๐ท๐ด Tรขrgu Mureศ 46.54
๐จ๐ฆ Sault Ste Marie 46.55
๐จ๐ฆ Greater Sudbury 46.49
๐ซ๐ท Fontenay-le-Comte 46.466
๐ซ๐ท Montmorillon 46.427
๐ญ๐บ Hรณdmezลvรกsรกrhely 46.413
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Claude 46.399
๐ฉ๐ช Haldensleben 11.417
๐ฉ๐ช Ingolstadt 11.425
๐ฉ๐ช Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz 11.467
๐ฉ๐ช Geretsried 11.467
Locations Near: Bolzano 11.3538,46.4952
๐ฎ๐น Trento 11.119,46.07 d: 50.6
๐ฆ๐น Innsbruck 11.395,47.263 d: 85.4
๐ฎ๐น Bassano del Grappa 11.749,45.765 d: 86.7
๐ฆ๐น Schwaz 11.707,47.345 d: 98.3
๐ฎ๐น Belluno 12.217,46.133 d: 77.5
๐ฆ๐น Imst 10.733,47.233 d: 94.7
๐ฎ๐น Vicenza 11.55,45.548 d: 106.4
๐ฎ๐น Castelfranco Veneto 11.933,45.667 d: 102.4
๐ฉ๐ช Garmisch-Partenkirchen 11.083,47.5 d: 113.6
Antipodal to: Bolzano -168.646,-46.495
๐น๐ด Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17133.2
๐ฆ๐ธ Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16427.7
๐ผ๐ธ Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16371.6
๐ต๐ซ Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16348.5
๐บ๐ธ Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12526.5
๐บ๐ธ Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12440.9
๐บ๐ธ Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12427.5
๐บ๐ธ Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 12422.8