Surroundings
Our village, Eggen
From our farm it is only a short drive (2 km) to the centre of the village where you’ll find shops, a pizzeria and two restaurants.
The parish church is consecrated to St Nicholas. This is where we traditionally celebrate the “Eggner Kirchtag” on the first Sunday in December .
From June to November, you can purchase a Mobilcard for only € 10,00 and explore Eggental and its surrounds for an entire week. The bus stop is a mere 300m from our farm.
You can visit, inter alia,
- Deutschnofen, the village next door
- Maria Weißenstein a famous place of pilgrimage
- the observatory at Gummer
- Lake Karer
A mere 20-minute drive away, the provincial capital of Bozen has a lot to offer:
- the arcades, a shopping mecca
- the archaeological museum, exhibiting Ötzi, “the man from the ice”
- the Reinhold Messner Mountain Museum at Sigmundskron Castle
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- the botanical gardens near Trautmannsdorff Castle
- the thermae
During the summer months, you can join bus tours to a variety of interesting destinations:
- Lake Garda,
- Venice,
- the Arena at Verona,
- day tour of the Dolomites
