Bolzano [bo: tsən̩] (Italian Bolzano [boltsano] locally [boldzano], Ladin Bulsan [bʊlzan] or Balsan, Latin Bauzanum) is the provincial capital of South Tyrol, an autonomous province in Italy, and as such, the seat of the government and the Tyrolean Tyrolean Landtag .

Since 1964, Bolzano is bishop of the new diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone.

Bolzano is divided into five districts (see infobox), which in turn several historical neighborhoods and formerly independent communities which constitute or contain.
Incorporated the former rural communities Zwölfmalgreien (1911) and Gries (1925). These are still Katastralgemeinden own.
The historical Bolzano consisted only of today's Old City between Talfer and Eisack or rod and customs Wangergasse.Trotzdem lived 1910 approximately 45% of the historical Bolzano Bozen.
Today's Europe-Neustift Neighborhoods and Don Bosco belong to the historic Gries. The quarter-Oberau Haslach belonged to Zwölfmalgreien (The Malgreien Haslach, Oberau and part of St. James with the Grutzen).

South Tyrol, officially: Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Alto Adige or ital. Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige, ladin. Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan - Südtirol, is the northernmost province of Italy and, together with the Autonomous Province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige region. Since the adoption of the South Tyrol Package enjoys autonomy rights of the country. The state capital is Bolzano in South Tyrol.

More than two-thirds of the population are in German, about one-quarter Italian as their mother tongue and a smaller proportion of population in the Dolomites area speaks Ladin. The Ladiner represent just four percent of the population of South Tyrol.
Alto Adige is also one part of the Europe Region of Tyrol-Trentino-South Tyrol, which is essentially the area of the historic crown corresponds Tyrol.

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