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...always better, but it's hard not to love the sheer scale of the newly opened Merano Thermal Baths (thermemeran.it) in Italy's mountainous South Tyrol region. Designed by celebrated Italian architect Matteo Thun, the expansive, steel-and-glass complex encompasses 25 indoor and outdoor sulfur-infused pools, fed by a thermal source located 2,350 m underground. The hot spring, which keeps the baths at a cozy 33°C, was originally discovered in 1836. All-natural therapies-including apple-bud baths, radon water massages and grape mudpacks-are available alongside medical treatments for such ailments as rheumatism...
...words on the snowman in the eastern Tyrol skiing resort of Steinplatte read "Snow guaranteed from end of November to end of Easter". Fears that global warming is melting away Alpine ski slopes are adding to an unusually Grinchy state of mind in Austria...
That's at least a plausible explanation for several fresh clues that have emerged in the investigation at the South Tyrol Archaeology Museum in Bolzano, Italy. For one thing, a local medical examiner has determined that Otzi's torso was bruised and his hand badly cut, suggesting a fight at close quarters. For another, DNA analysis reveals that one of the arrows in his quiver is stained with the blood of several other people, which indicates he may well have shot his enemies and retrieved the arrow. And the friend? Someone else's blood left stains on the shoulders...
From the gloom of this year's I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species emerges one point of light: the Bavarian pine vole. Previously declared to be extinct, this humble rodent is in fact alive and well and living - not in Bavaria as you'd expect, but in Northern Tyrol. (The Lord Howe Island stick insect, last seen on its Australian island home in 1920, is the only other species to have been rediscovered after being classified as extinct.) The pine vole hadn't been spotted since 1962 but two years ago, a group of the rodents popped up across...
...Riedel's flagship crystal is still produced in the time-honored way, with glowing lumps of molten glass mouth-blown into cast-iron molds and fitted with hand-fashioned stems and bases by master craftsmen working in two factories at Kufstein, in the Austrian Tyrol near the German border, and at Schneegattern, north of Salzburg. Riedel glasses are near-perfect examples of ongoing innovation in traditional craftsmanship...