Vernagt - Vernago: Ötzi - Discovery Point
Ötzi Discovery Point lies above the Schnalstal Valley in the Ötztal Alps, at the Tisenjoch pass on the Italy–Austria border. In 1991, hikers found the naturally preserved remains known as Ötzi in a hollow at Tisenjoch. Scientific examination dates this Copper Age man to around 3300 BC, making him one of the world’s oldest and best-preserved human mummies. The find transformed this remote pass above Schnalstal into a place of international archaeological importance. Ötzi and his equipment are conserved at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, while the discovery site remains part of a high-alpine landscape of rock, scree and ice.
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Among the settlements of South Tyrol, Vernagt–Vernago stands out for its position beside the Vernagt Reservoir in the upper Schnalstal valley. The lake is an artificial reservoir, held by a dam completed in the early 1950s; it altered the original settlement area and gives the valley a distinct waterside character. Above it rise the Ötztal Alps, while the wider Val Senales is associated with high Alpine farming and routes towards glacier country near the Austrian border. Vernagt–Vernago belongs to the municipality of Senales/Schnals, where German and Italian place names reflect South Tyrol’s bilingual public life. Browse other webcams across the Schnalstal valley and South Tyrol to place this setting in a wider geographic context.
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