The Trentino-Alto Adige region of northern Italy borders on Switzerland and Austria. Its numerous tourist attractions include the Dolomite Mountains, which the famous architect Le Corbusier called “The most beautiful work of architecture even seen,” glacier lakes, and Alpine forests. Needless to say, skiing and other winter sports are a major attraction here, but you can’t really count on the snow until late February.

This lovely region is composed of two parts, Trentino in the south and the largely German speaking Alto Adige in the north. Alto Adige, sometimes known as South Tyrol, really seems like part of Austria. Its second largest city, Merano (Meran in German), plays host to an International Wine and Culinara during the second weekend of November. There is quite a focus on biodynamic and organic wine as well as Asian food. What multiculturalism, Asian food in a Germanic speaking part of Italy.

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