Places
of interestTourism Museum of the Upper Puster Valley.
Tourism Museum of the Upper Puster Valley.
Niederdorf (Villabassa) is in the Upper Puster (Pusteria)Valley,
which 150 years ago was the pioneer region in Tyrolean
tourism. Beginning in 1871, it was easily accessible
to residents of big cities via the Southern Railway
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The museum, housed
in the Wasserman House, depicts a passage through
time from the beginnings of tourism, for example the
journey of the Bourbon, Isabella of Parma and her
servants, who stayed at the Wassermann House in 1760,
to the present, including the precursors of tourist
institutions (old inns and numerous health spas),
the construction of the railway in the Puster Valley,
and the beginning of mountaineering in the region.