South Tyrol, situated south of the main Alpine ridge, offers an inexhaustible wealth of impressive scenery with sun-drenched valleys, glacier-covered granite mountains, fragrant alpine pastures and above all the bizarre rock world of the Dolomites. But it is only in the last fifty years that South Tyrol has become the land of hikers and climbers, of wine and gourmets. The two thousand years before that, South Tyrol had the Brenner Pass, the lowest and most central pass over the main Alpine ridge, and thus the most important inner-Alpine transport route in history. This particular geographical position has brought together in this comparatively small country a great wealth of artistic and cultural-historical influences, which have left behind an immense wealth of the most varied works of art: Byzantine-influenced, i.e. south influenced fresco painting meets h.