Claudio Monteverdi Provincial Academy of Music
(http://www.conservatoriob...)? like the university it is ranked as one of the best academies of music in italy in italy academies of music are considered at university level. since 2006 it's controlled by the autonomous province instead of the state and it's foreseen a big development because of that.
Bozen is a congress, financial and business centre. School of languages and institutions could look for English teachers/speakers and new minds are requested in some technical sectors. If both German and Italian are known everybody can find a job in a restaurant, shop or hotel if it had some job experiences.
Convention Bureau South Tyrol (http://www.convention.bz....)
Techno Innovation South Tyrol (http://www.bic-suedtirol.org)
Bolzano Trade Fair (http://www.messebozen.it)
Autonomous Province of South Tyrol - Office for Bilingualism and Foreign Languages (http://www.provincia.bz.i...) It has also a library with books, dictionaries and language courses on book, CD, DVD and a lot of films in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arab and Portuguese in the Capucin's street 28, Kapuzinergasse/via Cappuccini
Job finder powered by the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol - Job service (https://cert.provinz.bz.i...)
Bolzano is the ideal place if you want to study both German and Italian, or German or Italian after having studied one of the two.
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
(http://www.unibz.it) international trilingual italian, german, english university. it's ranked as one of the best no statal universities in italy. officially, it is a private university but it's financed by the autonomous province.
manifesta 2008
From July 19 until November 2, 2008 Bolzano and Trento were host cities of Manifesta's (http://www.manifesta.org/...) 7th edition (http://www.manifesta7.it), an important biennial visual art event.
concerts
The Showtime Agency (http://www.showtime-ticket.com) is the most important events organizer in the region - every year Bolzano host a big number of concerts with groups or singers from Italy, Austria or Germany and internationally known artists. For tickets information please contact the agency.
If you want to go to underground concert Alternative-Punk-Indie-Metal, Poison For Souls (http://www.myspace.com/po...) is the right choice for you!
alpine city of the year 2009
The Alpine Convention selects every year a city of the Alps from France to Slovenia that can hold for a year the title "Alpine City of the Year". In 2008 the Bolzano bid was chosen for 2009. Bolzano is seat with Innsbruck of the permanent secretariate of the Alpine Convention, so it's commonly thought to be co-capital of the Alps, though.
During 2009 special exhibitions and events will be hold.
Theater, opera, and music
Carambolage
Theater im Hof
Kulturhaus Walther von der Vogelweide
Municipal Theatre of Gries
New City Theatre
Cristallo Theatre
Cinema
Cineplexx Bolzano Bozen
Filmclub (Capitol)
In Bolzano there are 3 movie theatres with a total of 11 screens:
Eden
Sport
Swimming
In summer the lido (http://www.gemeinde.bozen...) in the trieste street is the favourite place of the people: open-air swimming pools and a big park with bar and restaurant. admission â¬5. in winter there is the swimming & fitness centre karl dibiasi (http://www.gemeinde.bozen...) just behind the lido. admission â¬4.50/5.20.
Skiing
South tyrol is full of ski resorts. the more 'bolzanian' ski resorts are the rittnerhorn (http://www.rittnerhorn.com/) 20km from bozen and reinswald (http://www.reinswald.com/...) 30km. both web sites are in english available. other nearby ski resorts are carezza 25km, meran 2000 30-35km or the very well known val gargena40km which is part of the sella ronda ski circuit.
Soccer
The most important football team of the region plays in the 'serie c2' and its name is fc sã¼dtirol alto adige (http://www.fc-suedtirol.com) and plays in the drusus stadion. in july/august test matches with renowned team such as the internazionale milan, monaco, stuttgart and others.
Ice rinks
In bozen there are four ice rinks: one near to the runkelstein castle, one in the genua street via genova/genuastraãe in the don bosco district/new city, one in the sport city in the area of pfarrhof/maso della pieve in the oberau-haslach/oltrisarco-aslago district/south bolzano/bozen and one on the talvera promenade.
Ice hockey
Home sport of bolzano is ice hockey. hc bolzano/bozen interspar foxies (http://www.hcb.net) is the local professional hockey club in bozen and winner of the italian hockey season 2007/2008 it plays in the italian premier league and it won 17 times the national championship - italian record. they play at the eiswelle/palaonda ice palace.
Festivals
Upload - Music Contest + Festival
(http://www.upload.bz.it) is a song contest with participants under 26 hold in may/june. upload 2009 from 3 to 6 june at talferwiesen.
Jazz and others - International Jazz Festival Bolzano-Bozen
(http://www.jazzfestivalbz.com/) is an important summer jazz festival.
Bolzano Festival Bozen
(http://www.bolzanofestiva...) offers concerts of the gustav mahler and european union youth orchestra in concert houses and in the squares of the city, the international "ferruccio busoni" piano competition and the shows of antiqua renaissance and baroque music. every summer.
Tours
Passepartour
(http://www.passepartour.com/) organizes tours in order to discover bolzano and surroundings by bike.
Bolzano Tourist Board
Contact the Bolzano Tourist Board for information about city guided tours, excursions on the mountains or in the surrounding area or for bike tours.
Fairs
Bolzano has a long fair tradition and it host an important and modern fair quarter, which is in South Bolzano.