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Absam, Tyrol, Austria. Date. January 17, 1797. Shrine. St. Michael's Basilica, Absam, Austria. Our Lady of Absam is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, associated with a 1797 Marian apparition in the alpine village of Absam, a municipality of Austria. Unlike traditional Marian apparitions, this apparition of the Virgin Mary was said to ...
- January 17, 1797
- St. Michael's Basilica, Absam, Austria
Tyrol (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ l, t aɪ ˈ r oʊ l, ˈ t aɪ r oʊ l / tih-ROHL, ty-ROHL, TY-rohl; historically the Tyrole; Austrian German: Tirol ⓘ; Italian: Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria.
- 26,674 km² (10,299 sq mi)
- Tyrolean
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Virgen is often referred to as the "Meran of East Tirol" in reference to the town of Meran over the border in South Tirol, famous for its palm trees and almost Mediterranean climate. It is the largest settlement in the Virgental Valley, a quiet mountain valley bordering the Hohe Tauern National Park. Virgen lies at 1,200 metres above sea level ...
With a land area of 12,683.85 km 2 (4,897.26 sq mi), Tyrol is the third-largest federal state in Austria. North Tyrol shares its borders with the federal states Salzburg in the east and Vorarlberg in the west. In the north, it adjoins the German federal state of Bavaria; in the south, it shares borders with the Italian province of South Tyrol ...
The history of Tyrol, a historical region in the middle alpine area of Central Europe, dates back to early human settlements at the end of the last glacier period, around 12,000 BC. Sedentary settlements of farmers and herders can be traced back to 5000 BC. Many of the main and side valleys were settled during the early Bronze Age, from 1800 to ...
History of South Tyrol. Modern-day South Tyrol, an autonomous Italian province created in 1948, was part of the Austro-Hungarian County of Tyrol until 1918 (then known as Deutschsüdtirol and occasionally Mitteltirol [1] ). It was annexed by Italy following the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I.
Tirol attracts visitors seeking the best of two worlds: the urban sophistication of Innsbruck, its capital city, and the spectacular Alpine landscape.
