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Bolzano (Italian) or Bozen (German) is a town in the Trentino-Upper Adige (It. Trentino-Alto Adige) region of Italy; its 2001 population was 94,989, and the area of the commune is 52.33 sq. km. It is the capital of the mainly German speaking autonomous province of Bolzano-Alto Adige (Italian) / South Tyrol (German Südtirol) province, officially trilingual. The province covers an area of 7,400 sq. km, with 116 communes and 462,999 inhabitants (2001 census). The province recorded a population gain of 5,1% from 1991 to 2001.
The province is almost completely mountainous, and is extended on the Adige valley north of the town of Salorno; other important rivers are Eisack-Isarco, forming Eisacktal-Val d'Isarco, and Rienz-Rienza, that flows in Pustertal-Val Pusteria. The easternmost part of the province belongs to the Drava basin, tributary of the Danube.
Other important cities are Brixen-Bressanone, Bruneck-Brunico and Meran-Merano.
Bozen is internationally famous for the ice-mummy "Ötzi".
Highway A22-E45 to Trento and Verona and to Innsbruck and Munich. Railway (main connection between Italy and Germany).
For more (historical & geographical) information see South Tyrol
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