Meran's
Meran's "Old Town" is a seductively charming place with a romantic downtown area, small lanes, and colorful house facades. It pulsates with life, and features numerous shops, pubs, cafés, and meeting places for connoisseurs and lovers of culture, literature, history, architecture, health – for those who appreciate fine living.
... and Meran/Merano is also a charming garden city, a promenade town, and a climatic oasis in the Alpine region.
Merano Kurhaus
The splendid Liberty-style Kurhaus, in a very central position along the river promenade, was built at a time when Merano's fame and fortune were at their highest point and it is the architectural jewel of the whole town. The first classic-style Kurhaus dates to 1874 and houses conferences, balls, festivals and all the other events and antertainment organised for guests of the era. As the number of people visiting Merano each year grew. it was soon deemed necessary to enlarge the building and the work on the new Kurhaus, designed by the Viennese architect Ohmann, was started in 1912 and finished two years later in 1914. The Kurhaus was, at those times, the first building in town to have electric lighting. It has recently been completely restored.
The princes castle
This residence of the Princes of Tyrol was built in 1470 and was used by them when they visited Merano. Today it houses various Gothic furnishings and a rich collection of interesting historic musical instruments.
The PARISH CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS
The church was built between 1310 and 1455 and its tower, the landmark of the whole town, heightened in stages until it reached its present height of 80 mts. in the C16th. There are some very interesting frescos in the tower entrance, sculptures and paintings inside the church itself and old gravestones behind the building on land which served as the town cemetery until 1848. The C15th. Barbara's Chapel, once a chapel of rest, lies to the east of the parish church and was restored between 1995-1999.
