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We loved this central location right next to Christmas market but a square away so no noise. We booked 2 rooms for 2 adults and 2 teenage girls. We were given a free upgrade to a larger room with couch area and view of Piazza del Grano from window so we could be adjacent to girls’ room, rather than have the same smaller room as them on a different floor. ||Hotel is lovely, staff very friendly but we didn’t make use of the bar/cafe as so much to see on the doorstep, walk to train station was less than 10 minutes. Make sure to do ride on funiculare (cable car) up to little alpine train line that travels to a couple of villages and back. ||A 3 night stay was sufficient for us to soak up all that Bolzano has to offer for tourists - although I’m sure there is a lot more. We went there for the Christmas market which was lovely but paled in comparison to the huge Munich markets we’d just visited. ||Also worth a visit is the municipal square just near the train station that has an amazing interaction pal display explaining what turned out to be the fascinating cultural origins/divide between the 3 main ethnic groups in the area. People must choose to identify as either German speakers (majority), Italian, or Ladin (small replicas ethnic group we’d never heard of). ||Everything in Bolzano is quite expensive - as throughout northern Italy, but town centre picturesque and we loved Hotel and location. Only minor complaint from husband was tiny shower. He should have remembered, being from Italy. ||Highly recommended.