In the city of Bolanzo, in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy

 Ötzi, also called the Iceman, refers to the ancient mummified human body that was found by German tourists (Helmut Simon and his wife Erika), on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps -- on the Italian-Austrian border, on September 19, 1991. 

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(in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy) Bolzano, in the Trentino–Alto Adige regione, is found at the juncture of the Talvera and Isarco rivers just northeast of their confluence with the Adige, north of Trento. It is surrounded on three sides by mountains and opens to the south onto a floodplain that is thoroughly cultivated with vineyards, fruits, and vegetables. Bolzano, sheltered from cold north winds by the surrounding mountains, has become both an agricultural and a tourist center. The capital of Italy’s region of South Tyrol, Bolzano has been Italian, only since World War I -- and its character remains distinctly Germanic. At the center of the town, Piazza Walther (featured here) is named for a 13th-century German minstrel. The town’s most famous "resident," Ötzi the Iceman, dates from about 3300 BCE and now rests at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology (drawing some 300,000 visitors each year). Yet, Bolzano should not be considered provincial. Once a stop on the coach route between Italy and the flourishing Austro-Hungarian Empire, this town-like city is worldly and engaged, a long-time conduit between cultures that has more recently become home to Europe's first trilingual university. Its quality of life – one of Italy's highest – is reflected in its openness, youthful energy, and quite a pervasive greenness. A pretty backdrop of grassy, rotund hills sets off rows of pastel-painted townhouses, while bicycles ply riverside paths and wooden market stalls offer Alpine cheese, speck (cured ham) and dark, seeded loaves aplenty. German may be the first language of 95% of the region, but Bolzano is an anomaly. Today its Italian-speaking majority – a legacy of Mussolini's Italianization program of the 1920s, and the more recent growth of education and employment opportunities – looks to both the north and south for inspiration.