Exit right and along Via Museo for Piazza delle Erbe. Every morning except Sunday, you'll find the colorful fruit and vegetable market.

On the corner with via Portici sits the Fountain of Nettuno dating from 1745. The so called 'Gabelwirt' or 'Oste with fork' is among the most beautiful hundred fountains in Italy, which is saying something.

The impressive covered walkway in via dei Portici houses Bolzano's commercial life. Do enter the ancient pharmacist shop 'Alla Madonna' almost a museum of oils, scents and cures, as well as being seat of the Artigiani Artisitci Atesini Cooperative.

The work on the Gothic Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta was begun in 1280 by the Lombards in Romanic style, modified by the Swabians in Gothic form and finally completed in 1400. The bronze door is modern, a work of the Innsbruck sculptor Defner.

The tower by and pulpit date from the early 16th century and were designed by Hans Lutz von Schussenried in grey 'arenaria' stone.

Near the Cathedral you can find the Chiesa dei Domenicani. Constructed in 1600 it is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padova on the spot where the old Castel Wendelstein of the Counts of Tirol once stood.

Piazza Walther was built by King Massilmiliano of Bavaria inn 1808 and renamed in honour of Archduke Johan of Austria. It received its present name in 1901 remembering Walther von der Vogelweide who was one of the most important medieval German story poets of the 12th century.

Palazzo Mercantile in Argentieri Street dates from 1708 and marks the southern boundary of the old city moat. This was the Merchant Magistrates Court and is now a museum.

The economic history of Bolzano is documented here and no doubt all the business of nearby Piazza del Grano where the agricultural and grain market was based.

You last stop is also the oldest part of town. The original inhabited area grew up below the walls of the castle of the Princes of Trento demolished a long way back by Mainardo II of Tirol in 1277.

Close by today is one of Bolzano's most beautiful buildings, the Casa della Pesa from 1634.