Nals, Province of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
🇮🇹 Nals is a comune (municipality) and a village in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 13 km (8 mi) north-west of the city of Bolzano.
Geography As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 1,815 and an area of 12.3 square km (4.7 sq mi).
Nals borders the following municipalities: Andrian, Eppan, Gargazon, Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix, Terlan, and Tisens.
Frazioni The municipality of Nals contains the frazione (subdivision) Sirmian (Sirmiano).
Coat-of-arms The shield is parted quarterly: the first and fourth quarter represent, in a mirror-like manner, a sable ox on argent; the second and third, always as a mirror-like image, represents an argent swan on azure. These are the arms of the Lords of Boymont-Payrsberg who owned the Schwanburg and Payrsberg Castles. The coat of arms was granted in 1967.
Linguistic distribution According to the 2011 census, 90.58% of the population speak German, 8.78% Italian and 0.64% Ladin as first language.
Europe/Rome/South_Tyrol
Nals has a population of over 1,815 people. Nals also forms part of the wider South Tyrol Province which has a population of over 531,178 people. Nals is situated 18 km north-west of Bolzano.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Nals has links with:
🇩🇪 Gemünden am Main, Germany