Salorno

Salorno/Salurn, lies along one of the most important European routes, and it is the most southern town council in Alto Adige.
The village, surrounded by orchards and vineyards and woods, lies on the eastern bank of the Adige river, as if it were a sort of "linguistic boundary" between the Italian and German ethnic groups.
On the left side of the valley, at the top of a rocky pinnacle, and south of the village, it is possible to admire the ruins of the ancient castle Haderburg, also known as Salorno castle. Probably built in 1150, this fortress, extended several times, can boast the stay of some important people. Among these there are, in 1551, Melanchton the most famous collaborator of Martin Luther, and in more recent times the painter Albrecht Dürer.
Historical documents, however demonstrate that the origin of Salorno can be dated back to most ancient times, to the Bronze Age. Later on Roman legionaries and Medieval traders chose the town as stopping place where to rest, during their long journeys. But the periods that mainly influenced today's Sluderno have been the Renaissance and the baroque period, as many elegant villas, which can still be admired nowadays walking along the town centre, testify.
From Salorno it is possible to leave for many wonderful excursions among the woods between the Adige and the Cembra valley, on Mount Corno, beneath which the European path E5 winds, or to Prati dei Re, to Lago Bianco or to Lago Nero.