A village to fall in love with…

Saltusio, a typical South Tyrolean village, represents the connecting point between the Mediterranean climate of Merano and its surroundings and the fresh mountain air of the Italian Alps. Here you can feel the Southern and Northern flares melting together in perfect harmony. A place soaked with history plunged in the beautiful scenery of the Passiria Valley.

The Passiria Valley lies just north of the spa town Meran, on the south side of the Ötztaler and Stubaier Alps. It is an area rich in natural beauty, most of which is still untouched, and is one of the prettiest and most interesting places in South Tyrol. The Passiria Valley stretches from the orchards and vineyards in the valley bottom to the mountain meadows, mountain terraces and the mountain peaks.

800 years of mining history at the Schneeberg Museum

The adventure mine and the shelter hut on Schneeberg in Passeier (South Tyrol) are on 2355 m above sea-level and can only be reached by foot. The one in Schneeberg (= Snow Mouintain) is the highest situated mine in Europe (2000 m - 2500 m) and consists of about 130 km of galleries and shafts that can partly be entered. Opened in the year 1996, the museum supplies interesting information about over 800 years of mining history.

The Museum Passeier in S. Leonardo

At the former farmstead of the Tyrolean freedom-fighter Andreas Hofer (1767–1810) in the village of S. Leonardo in the Passiria Valley in the South Tyrol a museum, the MuseumPasseier, has been created. The open-air area offers a stroll through various rebuilt original buildings of the 16th to the 19th century, through a typically furnished Passeirer farmstead of late, a visit to the chapel of the Sacred Heart (1899) and the small church of the Sacred Sepulchre (1691).