Art Nouveau Week 2026

The international Art Nouveau festival comes to Bolzano and the Renon plateau
From 8 to 14 July 2026, the eighth edition of "Art Nouveau Week" takes place, an international festival dedicated to the Art Nouveau style and decorative arts, organised by the Italia Liberty association and curated by Andrea Speziali. This year's theme is the sea. The programme involves more than 300 cities worldwide and, in Trentino-South Tyrol, brings guided tours to Bolzano, Castelrotto, Levico, Merano, the Renon plateau and Rovereto. Among these, the events closest to Bolzano take place in the city itself and on the nearby Renon plateau.
In Bolzano, on Saturday 11 July at 10:00 am, the guided tour "Vienna Secession in the Historic Centre of Bolzano" takes place. A guided walk exploring Bolzano as a meeting point between Austrian and Italian cultures. Although the modern style arrived here later than elsewhere, it developed with remarkable elegance. Buildings, architectural details and urban atmospheres reveal the lesser-known yet fascinating face of Bolzano at the beginning of the twentieth century. Meeting point: Walther Square, at the foot of the monument to Walther von der Vogelweide. Duration: 2 hours.
On the Renon plateau, just a few minutes from Bolzano, the same type of guided tour, "Art Nouveau and elite summer holidays on the Renon plateau", is offered on three dates – 8, 12 and 14 July, always at 10:00 am – starting in Soprabolzano and ending in Collalbo aboard the historic 1907 Renon narrow-gauge train. Meeting point: Soprabolzano, upper station of the cable car. Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Both tours are led by licensed tourist guides Maria Elisabetta Zerbetti and Christoph Ratschiegler and take place once a minimum quorum of 8 participants is reached, with mandatory booking by 5 July 2026.
Bookings:

elisabettazerbetti@italialiberty.it

christophratschiegler@italialiberty.it

Tel. (+39) 345 4600618

Tel. (+39) 339 2962530
Prices Bolzano (per person):

Full rate 20€

Italia Liberty or Touring Club Italiano member 18€

Audio guide, for groups over 10 people 2€

Closed group of up to 20 people, full tour 200€
Prices Renon (per person):

Full rate 20€

Italia Liberty or Touring Club Italiano member 18€

Audio guide, for groups over 10 people 1.50€

Closed group of up to 30 people, full tour 200€
The programme in Trentino-South Tyrol also includes further dates in other locations of the region:

9 July – Levico, 5:00 pm – The Habsburg Park of Levico

10 July – Merano, 5:00 pm – Modernist elegance and beauty among the Alps

11 July – Castelrotto, 5:00 pm – Art Nouveau. Art, Architecture and Alpine Traditions

13 July – Rovereto, 10:00 am – Rovereto Liberty. Elegance and modernity between the 19th and 20th centuries

14 July – Castelrotto, 6:00 pm – On-site sketching (sketching en plein air)