Getting there by car.
From Munich (Germany) to Landeck and Nauders (Austria) across the Reschenpass in the Val Venosta Valley. From Verona (Italy) to Bolzano (Italy) and Merano (Italy) in the Val Venosta Valley.

Getting there by train.
Milano - Verona - Bolzano - Merano - Val Venosta (www.trenitalia.com)
Venice - Verona - Bolzano - Merano - Val Venosta (www.trenitalia.com)
Rome - Bologna - Verona - Bolzano - Merano - Val Venosta (www.trenitalia.com)

From Merano you can also go by bus in the Val Venosta Valley.

Getting there by airplane.
Bolzano airport: (www.abd-airport.it)
Verona airport: (www.aeroportoverona.it)
Treviso airport: (www.trevisoairport.it)
Bergamo airport: (www.sacbo.it)

Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) offers short flights for independent travelers to Treviso and Bergamo, which make for quick transfers to many key parts of South Tyrol.

Summer.
Freshness, which allures. Wonderful these summer days. The sun laughs and makes happy. Here I can feel well- with such a lot of possibilities: swimming, tennis, biking, paragliding, riding, water-walking. A highlight is summer-skiing on the Stilfserjoch!

Vinschgau Valley - Eldorado for walking tours.
Speak with the running water. The most beautiful irrigation-canal-paths are in Vinschgau and also the walkig tours aren't less beautiful. What can be more beautiful than to walk on irrigation canal paths, across woods and groves, across bushes and fruit- gardens on both sides of the Vinschgau Valley, accompanied by the murmur of the running water and at the same time have a look at the magical world of mauntains of the valley with its green lowlands and the snowy glaciers?
The irrigation canals are an ancient system of irrigation which was puzzled out many centuries ago to give water to the fields of the extreme dry and sunny Vinschgau. In Vinschgau it rains the less in the whole Alps. With simple means there built long drains to bring the water from the glaciers to the villages, hamlets and farms. Without the vital water many farmers in the past coulden't exist.
Expecially promenaders, walkers, excursionists from everywhere like the irrigation canal paths. To be able to reach the irrigation canal paths on both sides of the Vinschgau Valley there is surmount a difference in altitude of some hundred metres. There are some restaurants along the irrigation canal paths, where are offered home made products and the guest is entertained in old local tradition, where he can relax and recreate.
In the irrigation canal guide we want to present to you a little choice of paths in Vinschgau, where you can walk to one's heart's content and where you can get confident with the unique ancient culture and the irrigation canal system.

The National Park Stilfserjoch.
The National Park Stilfserjoch was founded in 1935 to protect and to improve the flora and to give a chance to the fauna, expecially to protect the geological phenomenons an the beauty of the landscape in the Ortler - Cevedale - mountains and to promote the tourism in some of the most beautiful valleys of the Alps. After the extension in 1977 the size of the National Park is today 1340 km². It includes 24 communities in 4 Provinces, these are Bozen, Brescia, Sondrio and Trento.
In the north it borders on Switzerland and in Livigno on its National Park.
In the south it borders on the Natural Park Adamello - Presanella. The National Park Stilfserjoch is the largest in the Alps and is the heart of a wild-life reserve of 4.000 km².