Waaghaus
Waaghaus stands at Kornplatz in Bolzano, the city’s oldest square. This historic building combines a Romanesque core, a gable roof, and a central double-arched window. Painted sixteenth-century pilasters frame the window, while the façade displays coats of arms for Austria, Tyrol, and Bolzano.
The public Fronwaage measured grain and liquids here under market regulations until 1780. The town’s only authorised scale shaped local trade, while the building later served as a public pawnshop and housed South Tyrol’s first savings bank branch. After renovation, it became a cultural centre with the Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino headquarters, the Ferruccio Busoni Gustav Mahler Foundation, the Bolzano Film Festival, and the South Tyrol Jazz Festival.
Waagcafé adds a modern bar and restaurant to this historic setting.
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