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Bolzano
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Bolzano is a city in the Trentino-South Tyrol region of Italy. It is the capital of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The Museum of Archeology in Bolzano is where the ice-mummy Otzi is kept. The city is also the home of the Italian Army's Alpini High Command and some of its combat and support units.
Initially inhabited by the Rhaetians, the area was settled by the Romans in 15 BC, Before Crist by General Nero Claudius Drusus, who gave the original town its Roman name, Pons Drusi. The city name later became Bauzanum. Bolzano has been a trading point since its foundation and elevation to a city over 800 years ago, due to its location in between the two major cities of Venice and Augsburg. Four times a year a market was held and traders came from the south and the north.
In 1918, at the end of World War I the region of Trentino, also known as the Welsch-Tirol and the southern part of the primarily German-speaking Tyrol were occupied by the Italian Army and thereafter annexed. The region was assigned to Italy according to the Treaty of London of 1915 that gave to Italy all the territories included in the Italian.
The Cathedral is on the right. After 1938, as a consequence of the approaching of Nazist Germany to Fascist Italy, an agreement was reached to solve the problem. Nazi Germany accepted to host in the Reich of all those South Tyroleans who refused the assimilation. Local Fascists expected the elites to go and the bulk of the population to stay. However, they miscalculated and allowed Nazi agents to infiltrate the South Tyrol who pushed the German population to opt for emmigration in large numbers. The majority of the inhabitants who spoke German had to choose between moving to Germany or assimilation. Bolzano is one of Italy’s most popular destinations and is well known for the quantity of cultural related attractions and monuments that the city has embraced.
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