South Tyrol - Italy - Vacation - Italia - Bed and Breakfast

From 1900 Europe was living the illusion of a precarious period of peace, which was suddenly broken by the murder in Sarajevo of the heir of the French Crown Francis Ferdinand.
In this way World War I got started (1914).
Italy remained neutral until the next year, when the allies assured to it the territories of Tyrol in the Southern Alps and those of the Adriatic,through the secret Treaty of London (April, 26 1915).
By the end of the war, September of 1919, these agreements were partially preserved thank to the treat of St. Germain.
South Tyrol was aggregated to Italy and the borders got extended to the Brennero.
With the coming of the Fascism in 1922, a deep politics of Italianization took place in Alto Adige.
Specific programs were created in order to italianize every sector of this region – from the administrative field (public offices, school,) to the economic, relational (press) and cultural sector.
The fascist Government stimulated the settlement of new industrial groups, so that million of people moved every year in Bolzano and new neighborhoods rose.
After that Government bought all the lands and pretended that it was an action of “public interest”.
By the time Hitler got in charge, the first consequences of his doing regarded Alto Adige as well. The followers of the National-socialistic party increased their number.
After Austria became part of Germany (March 1938), many citizens of Alto Adige were hoping that their land would become soon part of the Reich.
But during his first visit in Rome, Hitler promised that the borders of Brennero were going to be untouchable.
People had the right to decide whether to remain Italian citizens or become German citizens and move to Germany.
86% of them wonted to leave, the other 14% intended to stay.Transferring procedures went on slowly.
At the end of World War II, the agreement De Gasperi-Gruber was stipulated (September, 5 1946).
It assured to Alto Adige a certain independence from Rome, but no agreements upon the interpretation of norms and their actuation were never discussed.
The 50’ and 60’ were marked by lots of oppositions about the accomplishment of the self-government.
In the region tension came back in towns and the protest ended up in a series of outrages which included even a few deaths.
At the beginning of the 60’, government started to deal with the issue of Alto Adige once again.
In 1969 new norms were approved (called “pacchetto”) and in 1972 the constitutional law that assured to Alto Adige its independence, at least on paper, became operative. Despite political matters, the economic, social and cultural development started up a lot slowly.
Only in the second half of the 50’ tourism improved with the coming of German tourists. Commerce had a remarkable improvement as well, so that it was possible to re-establish the fair of Bolzano, which became soon the nucleus of the economical life of the land.
The cultural and spiritual issue found itself to start all over again in 1945.
The German school had to be reorganized: new teachers needed to be hired and new structures to be built.
The political developments that took place in the last years made possible a pacific cohabitation between ethnic realities so different one from the other.