Nalles Some 15 km from the spa town of Merano nestles the.Ora Ora is characterised by its historical centre and it.Cortina all’Adige In between vines and fruit orchards, there is.Termeno Aromatic wines in the sunny south, that’s what.Caldaro Caldaro, the wine village, locates at an average.Magrè Ancient alleys, manors and farmhouses characterise.Cortaccia The villages of the municipality of Cortaccia form a.Salorno At the border to the Trentino region, there is the.Andriano Andriano is a quaint little village located opposite.Egna Egna on the South Tyrolean Wine Road features a.Bolzano Near the capital of South Tyrol, the Wine Road.Appiano Appiano, the largest wine-growing area all over.The beautiful Three Castles Walk in Appiano leads also past the Chalk Tower. The ruin of another outer ward - walls with loopholes - is located at the nearby Unterhauser Farm. In English, however, it was translated literally: Nowadays, "Kreide" means chalk. The word derives from the term "Kreid" for warning - this explains the German name of the tower, "Kreideturm". Further on, it was used to light signal fires, called "Kreidefeuer". The Chalk Tower was an outer ward of Appiano Castle, a fortified observation tower to secure the eastern access to the castle. Inside there was and is only one dark shaft. At those times, the Chalk Tower was surrounded by a curtain wall and provided with kennels, with a small building and a round bow entrance on the southern side, in a height of 12 m. As the castle itself, also this building dates back to the 12th resp. It is a quadrangular tower with 1.5 metres thick walls called Kreideturm in German language which belongs to the complex of Appiano Castle above it. D_RS244011_Dreiburgenwanderung-Kreideturm-P1020557.JPG Inside the 1.5 metres thick walls of the Chalk Tower there is only one dark shaft.Ī tower stands alone on a wooded ridge towards the Valle dell'Adige valley, 65 m below Appiano Castle.D_RS242196_Dreiburgenwanderung-Kreideturm-P1020552.JPG It rises about 65 metres beneath Appiano Castle on a ridge above the Valle dell’Adige valley.D_RS243965_Dreiburgenwanderung-Kreideturm-P1070146.JPG And in fact, the fortified observation tower was also used to light signal fires.D_RS219335_7357-kreideturm-bei-hocheppan.JPG The name “Kreideturm” originates from the term “Kreid”, which means warning.D_RS177742_Eppan-Herbst-Weg-Kreideturm-5597.JPG The beautiful Three Castles Walk in Appiano leads past these two buildings.D_RS284464_0065-dreiburgen-schloss-hocheppan-burg-boymont-kreideturm.JPG View on Appiano Castle and - below it - the associated Chalk Tower, or “Kreideturm”.See video Video : Appiano Castle as seen from above.
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