Above the spa town of Merano lies Dorf Tirol, an ideal starting point for a hiking holiday in South Tyrol. The network of trails around Dorf Tirol includes around 70 km of marked trails at all altitudes, from botanical promenades to the low mountain ranges and up to the high-alpine Spronser Seenplatte in the Texelgruppe Nature Park. So there are countless opportunities for simple, but also challenging hikes or mountain bike tours. Dorf Tirol is also a place of culture. It stands with the ancestral castle of the Counts of Tyrol like no other town in South Tyrol for the history of the country.