Tubre - Tubre

Tubre (Taufers im Münstertal in German, Tuer in Romansh) is a center of the Trentino Alto Adige.

To know

Its population is mostly native German speakers (97.85%), compared to 2.15% of Italian and no Ladin speakers.

Geographical notes

Located at the western end of theSouth Tyrol in Val Monastero, bordered to the west by the Switzerland, with the canton of Grisons. To arrive in Switzerland it is sufficient to go through the customs post at the exit of the country.

There Val Monastero geographically belongs to Val Venosta and has a length of about 25 km. Almost a third of the valley is located in South Tyrol, the rest in Switzerland.

From the village you can reach the mountain ranges of the Val Müstair Alps, the Ötztal Alps and the Ortler Alps. It is 2 km from Müstair in Switzerland, 8 from Glurns, 9 from Malles Venosta, 11 from Sluderno, 28 from Resia, 30 from Silandro, 62 from Merano.

How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

Its municipal territory also includes the villages of Pontevilla / Puntweil and Rivaira / Rifair.

How to get

By plane

• 46.46027811.3263891 Bolzano-Dolomites Airport (IATA: BZO) (6 km from the center of Bolzano), ☎ 39 0471 255 255, fax: 39 0471 255 202. open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from Lugano is Rome with Etihad Regional (by Darwin Air). At certain times of the year, the Lauda Air company connects the city with Vienna once a week. On the other hand, charter flights are more numerous. 
• 45.39666710.8877782 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. 
• 45.42555610.3269443 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city ​​is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Charter only 

By car

• It is crossed by the state road 41 of Val Monastero which connects it to Glurns and to Val Venosta to the east, in Münstir in Switzerland West.

On the train

• 46.664910.581824 Railway station of Sluderno-Glurns. of the Val Venosta railway that connects Merano to Malles Venosta. 

By bus

• Public bus transport services in South Tyrol are managed by SAD [1]

How to get around

What see

• Church of San Giovanni (Sankt-Johann-Kirche). The 1220 building is in Romanesque style and made use of some existing wall elements of a former Benedictine monastery mentioned in the 9th century and destroyed around 1130. The plan of the church, which is well preserved in its genre, has the typical form of a Greek cross, and inside there are Romanesque frescoes from 1220-1230 and Gothic from 1383.

Indeed, even before 1220 most of the church of San Giovanni in Val Monastero had already been essentially built.

On the western forepart there is a facade of ashlars and a large door with three lowered arches. The central part of the complex is accessible through a porch built on two floors.

From 1300 the upper portico served as a dormitory and the lower one as a living room for the pilgrims of the hospice directed by the Gerosolimitano Order. The sacristy and the houses were also part of the hospice, and retain an extraordinary cycle of frescoes

The fresco of St. Christopher on the north side, which is at the same time the oldest portrait of the saint in Tyrol, gave this chapel its name. It is not only the oldest portrait but also the largest image of San Cristoforo in the entire Alpine arc.

The widely preserved Romanesque frescoes on the south wall and on the vaulted ceiling illustrate among other things the baptism of Jesus, Moses as lawgiver, Christ between Mary and John, as well as many knights, princes, nobles and peasants are all by the same artist of the Val Venosta.

In the upper atrium there is a cycle of Gothic frescoes from the end of the 14th century. In the 17th century the church was in the possession of the Hendl Counts and around 1837 the former hospice of San Giovanni was bought by the municipality of Tubre. 

• Hospice of San Giovanni. The town of Tubre has ancient roots, and since Roman times it was a transit place between the rich rock salt deposits of Switzerland and Italy, and for this reason the road took the name of Via del Sale.

In the Middle Ages, the gentle grassy basin watched by imposing mountains saw the passage of pilgrims who went to Chur, to whose diocese it belonged, like the whole Val Venosta after all. It was therefore logical that a hospice was erected in this place, fortunately handed down almost intact to us and dedicated to St. John, saint of the Catholic Church and patron of the Knights Hospitallers.

Built in the 8th century, it contains frescoes from the Romanesque period, depicting a peacock, an ideal architectural plant that refers to the Celestial Jerusalem, a two-faced eagle of clear Byzantine influence. The two heads respectively symbolized the East and the West and in a box there is a small narcissistic concession to the anonymous painter: a hand intent on frescoing.

Other frescoes are later, from the Gothic period, including the highest (4 m.) And the oldest San Cristoforo del Tyrol.

The stone stoup set on the facade overlooking the street is of considerable interest.

But the strong point of the Church is there Black Madonna and Child that welcomes the visitor in the lunette above the door.

The unusual shade of dark gray or black used traces the model of the “Black Madonnas” to the symbolism of many pagan female deities, among which Isis and Cybele are remembered, in an ageless age, in which black was a positive color. In fact, in ancient times it was considered a bearer of life and well-being and many myths that speak of the formation of the Universe approach the black indistinct primordial, archetype of Chaos and of the Principle, later connected to the Great Mothers of the Earth.

Thus the symbols transmigrate, until they are incorporated from the Byzantine East to the figure of the Madonna. From Byzantium to the West the step is short, and among other things this Madonna of Tubre is the only one existing in Trentino-Alto Adige. 

• Chapel of San Michele. This small church is located near the cemetery and since June 2000 it has housed the parish museum. Inside, the chapel houses 15th century frescoes placed above the gothic altar with doors; you can then see some wooden sculptures that come from eight churches in the country. 
• 46.64605610.4623061 Parish Church of San Biagio, via della Chiesa. The date of the construction of this church is not known, but it was mentioned as early as 1201. In 1660 the church was demolished and rebuilt. The blessing of the church took place in 1663. 
• Rotund Castle. It was built around 900, initially owned by the nobles of Rotund, it was then sold to Heinrich of Reichenberg. Later it passed to the barons of Schlandersberg and Hendl, until the last owner, who still owns it today, Baron von Heydorf. 
• Reichenberg Castle. It was initially owned by the bishops of Chur, and around the twelfth century it became the property of the lords of Reichenberg, who gave it this name. 

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How to keep in touch

Post office

• 46.64379510.4630685 Italian post, Via San Giovanni, 30, ☎ 39 0473 832174. 

Around

• Müstair (Switzerland)
• Glurns - The smallest city in South Tyrol retains the perimeter of the walls, the title of city that comes from an important past and boasts membership in the circuit of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
• Sluderno
• Malles Venosta - The Abbey of Monte Maria and the church of San Benedetto preserve precious Romanesque frescoes with Byzantine influences one, the other Carolingian.
• Silandro - Capital of the Val Venosta, preserves two of the many manors that dot this part of Alto Adige that goes to the borders of Austria is Switzerland.
• Resia Lake - The largest lake in South Tyrol is characterized by the bell tower of the ancient village of Curon Venosta, submerged after the construction of the dam, which emerges from the waters.

Itineraries

• Castles of South Tyrol - A journey to discover the South Tyrolean manors which, born for military purposes, later became largely refined stately homes, centers of culture, examples of fine architecture, testimony to the greatness of the families who built them.

Other projects

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• Commons contains images or other files on Tubre

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