Bolzano and High Plateau, April 23, 2015

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Views of the Tyrolian town of Bolzano

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statue to Walther von der Vogelweide the Meistersinger. Walther is one of the traditional competitors in the tale of the song contest at the Wartburg. He appears in medieval accounts and continues to be mentioned in more modern versions of the story such as that in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser. He is also named by Walter von Stolzing, the hero of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as his poetic model.

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The Bolzano Duomo with a statue to Walther von der Vogelweide the Meistersinger in front

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detail of the roof of the Duomo, which has the same kind of tiled roofs they have in Budapest

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King Neptune with his trident

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The Bozen Arch Museum (The South Tyrol Museum of Archeology)

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South Tyrol Museum of Archeology floor tiling detail

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we took a funicular up to a high ridge above Bolzano

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from the top of the plateau we could see some of the Dolomites

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we took a little train connecting the Tyrolean towns on the Alto Adige plateau

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onion domed church

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lamplighter lamp

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the town of Costalovara, Alto Adige

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Dolomites with glaciers

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Apiary (Bee) Museum, Costalovara, Italy

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Christos

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beautiful old heater stove

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statue to Saint Ambrose, saint of bee keepers

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older (left) and newer (right) parts of the Apiary Museum building