Castle of Rodengo

If you’re into culture we recommend to visit the castle of Rodengo. It was first built in 1140 and later enlarged and refurbished. It has an impressive weir system and some of the oldest frescos of the 13th century. You should visit the chapel, the wedding hall and the smithy.

The cloister of Sabiona is worth a visit

Already populated in the Neolithic, the cloister of Sabiona was later occupied by the Romans. From the 6th until the 10th century it was the bishop’s see which was later moved to Bressanone. In 1687 the cloister of Sabiona became a Benedictine cloister. It comprehends four churches: the Heilig Kreuz church, the Marien chapel, the cloister church and the Liebfrauen church.

Crib museum in Bressanone

Tyrolean cribs of three centuries

The crib museum in Bressanone is part of the diocesan museum in Bressanone’s Hofburg. All the exposed cribs have a special artistic value and show the salvific history in their own particular way.

Among others there are Franz Xaver Nißl’s and the brothers Augustin Alois and Josef Benedikt Probst’s oversize cribs. They were carved for the Hofburg in the 18th century by order of the last imperial prince Karl Franz Graf Lodron.
If you visit the cribs museum you will also see: a dressed crib made by the pharmacist Franck, a carved crib made by Johann Giner from Thaur, a crib by Giuseppe Sammartino from Neaples, a crib made by Giuseppe Vaccaro from Sicily, a paper crib made by Joseph Romed Kramer, a crib by Martin Engelbrecht, a wax crib made in the studio Cetto, two ivory cribs from the 18th century, one panorama crib, a carved crib by Alexander Dejaco, a dressed church crib from Wiesen, a terracotta crib made by Maria Delago, an infant Jesus from Prague and a Christ Child cradle.