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Lake Carezza or Lake Rainbow is a very small lake that is located in Italy, 25 kilometers from Bolzano, in the village of Nova Levante at the foot of Mount Latemar. And although the lake is small, thanks to the unique color of the water it is known throughout the world and is a pearl of Italian nature.

The size of the lake is constantly changing, the maximum length reaches 287 meters in the spring, at the same time the depth reaches 17 meters. In summer, the depth of the lake drops to 6 meters, but then its temperature rises to its maximum and reaches plus 13 degrees.

Scientists explain the unusual color of the lake’s water by the minerals that make up its composition. But there are other opinions on this matter. For example, local residents believe in a beautiful legend about Lake Carezza. The legend says that the sorcerer Masare was in love with a mermaid, but could not achieve her reciprocity. A sorceress he knew found out about this and advised him to dress up as a jewelry merchant and give a rainbow to his beloved. The sorcerer listened to the advice and did everything as she said, but he just forgot to change clothes. The proud mermaid recognized Masare and told him that she would never swim to the surface of the lake again. Angry, the magician threw all the jewels and fragments of the rainbow into her lake, and the lake has since become rainbow-colored.

Folgaria

Loved by Italians and visitors to the country, the ski resort is a small village with cobbled streets and a large selection of hotels. Folgaria is located next to the ski slopes. Beautiful mountains, winding roads, no car noise. On the 33 slopes of Folgaria, everyone will be comfortable: both advanced snowboarders and beginner skiers.

The ski resort has modern, safe lifts, a ski school and real mountain huts where you can relax and have a snack. Leisure time for adults and children is thoughtfully organized: there is the opportunity to skate, swim, go to the sauna, go to a disco, sing karaoke, while a nanny will look after the children.

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Province of South Tyrol

South Tyrol, or as it is also called Bolzano Bozen, is a border province in northern Italy. Italian and Austrian traditions meet in this picturesque mountainous region with a complex history. On the slopes of the Dolomites there are small medieval towns, numerous vineyards and modern ski resorts.

The culture of the province is largely determined by Austrian influence, as the area only came under Italian control in 1919. This explains the German language of more than half of the population, national costumes and cuisine.

South Tyrol is rich in both cultural and natural attractions. The largest Italian nature reserve is located here - the Stelvio National Park. In the cities of the province, many architectural monuments have been preserved - medieval monasteries, churches and castles are located in the capital of South Tyrol, the city of Bolzano and in the vicinity of the famous resort of Meran, in the cities of Brixen and Brunico. Be sure to visit Marienberg Abbey and Sigmundskron Castle.

And the Pusteria Valley and the Venosta district await ski lovers both in winter and summer.

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(Germany, Munich)

South Tyrol = Italy or Austria?

Previous story by Olga Born on the topic of Culture:

Tyrol is a very beautiful region of Europe: high rocky Alps, old fortresses and churches, clear rivers, mountain lakes and emerald valleys. Here reigns the calm and dignity inherent in the inhabitants of the mountains. But this beauty is divided into two parts: one part of Tyrol has been in Austria for centuries (though with interruptions), the other has been in Italy for almost 100 years and is called South Tyrol.

Now South Tyrol is a German-speaking province located in the very north of Italy. Those traveling to this country by car through the Brenner Pass may notice at the border post between Italy and Austria (on the Austrian side) this inscription, which means “South Tyrol is not Italy!”

South Tyrol, like a very beautiful but unlucky woman in love, has a complicated fate and a long and complicated history. For centuries, Tyrol was a bone of contention between the Austrian Habsburgs and the Bavarian Wittelsbachs, but at the beginning of the 19th century, the Tyrol finally became part of the Austrian Empire.

After the First World War, under the terms of the Saint-Germain Peace Treaty, this tasty and beautiful piece of land went from Austria to Italy. Ownership of this territory allows you to control the strategically important Brenner Pass, located on the way from Italy to Germany.

By the time of the annexation of South Tyrol, 86% of local residents spoke German, 4% spoke Ladin (a variant of Romansh), 3% spoke Italian, and the rest were foreigners.

Within Italy, German-speaking Tyroleans became a national minority. Moreover, the Italian government's promises to respect their rights were soon broken. And after Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922, a campaign began to assimilate the Tyroleans.

They were forbidden to use the German language, and their national culture was suppressed. The printing of newspapers in the native language of the Tyroleans and the teaching of it in school were prohibited. The original Tyrolean names of cities and villages were replaced by Italian ones.

The local population was forced into mass immigration. Elderly Tyroleans often say that their parents taught them to read and write their native language under the covers at night, in secret from the Italians.

At that time, most local residents lived on farms and had no access to management or industrial production. It was possessed by the Italians, who were provided with housing in the cities.

The union of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany brought the Tyroleans to the brink of extinction. They were offered either to move to the Third Reich and leave their homeland, or to stay and undergo complete Italianization. In this situation, the German-speaking culture of the region went underground.

After the end of World War II, at the Paris Peace Conference, the Brenner Pass, located in Tyrol, was officially recognized as the border between Austria and Italy. The South Tyroleans demanded that the victorious allies return their region to Austria.

However, the 1947 peace treaty established the Italian border as of 1919. According to this document, the German-speaking minority of South Tyrol was guaranteed full equality of rights with the Italian-speaking population. He was given the right to study in his native language, which could be used in public institutions along with Italian.

But only a year after the conclusion of the agreements, Rome adopted the Autonomous Statute for the Trentino-Alto Adige region, uniting the provinces of Bolzano (as the Italians call South Tyrol) and Trento. With this unification, the Italian population significantly outnumbered the German-speaking population.

For several decades, Austria made attempts to regain the lost region, but in vain. In 1992, the Austrian authorities announced to the UN the end of contradictions with Italy over the issue of South Tyrol. In 2001 it became a separate region of Italy.

Local residents were allowed to officially use the true name of their homeland - South Tyrol. This region, forcibly annexed by Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, managed to maintain its Austrian identity and become the most developed region of the country. Today, unemployment in the region is less than 2%, everywhere is clean and in German order.

Currently, the population of South Tyrol reaches 500 thousand inhabitants. For 70% of the population, the native language is German, for 25% it is Italian, another 5% are Ladin.

In South Tyrol, linguistic groups are guaranteed equal rights. The 70-seat parliament speaks two languages. And not only in the local parliament - even signs and street names are always in two languages, although only German is heard on the street.

Despite all the agreements, in South Tyrol from time to time the statement in German is heard and read: “Südtirol ist nicht Italien!”

Olga Born
(Germany, Munich)

Previous story by Olga Born on the topic of Culture.

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Interesting about the Italian language.
History, facts, modernity.
Let's start with a few words about the modern status of the language; it is obvious that Italian is the official language in Italy, the Vatican (simultaneously with Latin), in San Marino, but also in Switzerland (in its Italian part, the canton of Ticino) and in Several districts in Croatia and Slovenia, where a large Italian-speaking population lives, Italian is also spoken by some of the residents on the island of Malta.

Italian dialects - will we understand each other?

In Italy itself, even today you can hear many dialects, sometimes it is enough to travel only a few tens of kilometers to encounter another of them.
Moreover, dialects are often so different from each other that they can seem like completely different languages. If people from, for example, the northern and central Italian “outback” meet, they may not even be able to understand each other.
What is especially interesting is that some dialects, in addition to the oral form, also have a written form, such as the Neopolitan, Venetian, Milanese and Sicilian dialects.
The latter exists, accordingly, on the island of Sicily and is so different from other dialects that some researchers distinguish it as a separate Sardinian language.
However, in everyday communication and, especially, in large cities, you are unlikely to experience any inconvenience, because... Today, dialects are spoken mainly by older people in rural areas, while young people use the correct literary language, which unites all Italians, the language of radio and, of course, television.
It may be mentioned here that until the end of the Second World War, modern Italian was only a written language, used by the ruling class, scientists and in administrative institutions, and it was television that played a big role in the spread of the common Italian language among all inhabitants.

How it all began, origins

The history of the formation of modern Italian, as we all know it, is closely connected with the history of Italy and, of course, no less fascinating.
Origins - in Ancient Rome, everything was in the Roman language, commonly known as Latin, which at that time was the official state language of the Roman Empire. Later, from Latin, in fact, the Italian language and many other European languages ​​arose.
Therefore, knowing Latin, you can understand what a Spaniard is saying, plus or minus a Portuguese, and you can even understand part of the speech of an Englishman or a Frenchman.
In 476, the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, abdicated the throne after the capture of Rome by the German leader Odocar, this date is considered the end of the Great Roman Empire.
Some also call it the end of the “Roman language”, however, even today disputes still rage as to why exactly the Latin language lost its relevance, because of the capture of the Roman Empire by barbarians or was it a natural process and in what language? spoken towards the end of the Roman Empire.
According to one version, in ancient Rome by this time, along with Latin, the spoken language was already widespread, and it is from this popular language of Rome that the Italian that we know as Italian of the 16th century comes from, according to the second version, in connection with the invasion of the barbarians Latin mixed with various barbarian languages ​​and dialects, and it is from this synthesis that the Italian language originates.

Birthday - first mention

The year 960 is considered the birthday of the Italian language. This date is associated with the first document where this “proto-vernacular language” is present - vulgare, these are court papers related to the land litigation of the Benedictine Abbey, witnesses used this particular version of the language so that the testimony would be understandable to as many people as possible, until this moment in all official papers we can only see Latin.
And then there was a gradual spread in the ubiquitous life of the language vulgare, which translates as the people's language, which became the prototype of the modern Italian language.
However, the story does not end there, but only becomes more interesting and the next stage is associated with the Renaissance and with such well-known names as Dante Alighiere, F. Petrarch, G. Boccaccio and others.
to be continued...

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