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Innsbruck is the capital of the historical region of the Northern Tirolo and of the Austrian federal state of Tirolo, as well as capital of the historical region of the Tirolo. Situated to approximately 600 meters s.l.m. and with approximately 135.000 inhabitants, Innsbruck is one of the main cities of Austria. It is crossed by the Inn river and its name means, in fact, "bridge on the Inn". Surrounded by high mountains, is a famous winter station of sport, goal also of a lot of Italian tourists. With Bolzano as seat joined the Convention of the Alps. The mountain metropolis is characterized from the beauty of the mountains that surround it and the harmony cohesion of its ancient traditions with the vitality of a modern town. A locality without time, simply from story! In 1964 it was seat of the IX Winter Olimpiade and in 1976 of the XII Winter Olimpiade, later on of the withdrawal of the surrounded of Denver, in the Colorado, that had been assigned originally. The 16a stage of Turn of Italy 1988 has concluded to Innsbruck with the victory of Franco Vona. 
It is the center of one of the most famous clinics to treat the accidents caused from the mountain ski. The town of Innsbruck has produced on the place of what was the ancient Roman fort of Veldidena and rhymed a locality of boundary for all of the period of the Roman Empire. In 1232 it was raised the rank of town and in 1248 it passed between the dominions of the accounts of the Tirolo, for then to be yielded to Rodolfo IV of Hapsburg in 1363, that named it capital of the Tirolo. Become official residence of the emperor Massimiliano I, the town passes a period of large brightness and of economical development between the XVI and the XVII sec. With the Peace of Presburgo (1805) passed to the Bavaria for then to return legitimately to the Austria with the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the modern story it was occupied temporarily from the Italian troops in 1918 for then seriously to be bombed during the Second World War. |