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Valle di Casies/Gsieser Tal

Parish Church of St Nicholas in Pichl/Colle
The church was built in 1472 and the neo-Gothic interior of the church dates back to around 1879. Resteration in 1996.

Parish Church of St Martin in St. Martin/S. Martino
Formerly Gothic building dating back to 1425, which was turned into a baroque building in 1777/78
Parish Church of St Magdalena) in St. Magdalena. This church was built in the late Gothic period. It was enlarged several times, and it was also turned into a baroque and then into a Gothic building again.

Parish Church of St Magdalena in St. Magdalena/S. Maddalena
This church was built in the late Gothic period. It was enlarged several times, and it was also turned into a baroque and then into a Gothic building again.

The “Pater Haspinger House” in St. Martin/S. Martino
formerly a shooting range which was set up as open air shooting range on the occasion of the Tyrolean anniversary year 1909. Inside the house you can now see a photogrammetric reproduction of the famous painting “Der Landsturm” by Albin Egger Lienz.

The Pater J. Haspinger monument in St. Martin/S. Martino
was cast in bronze by the sculptor Othmar Winkler in 1959

Monguelfo/Welsberg

Parish church St. MargarethThe baroque parish church dates from 1738, though the tower remaining from an earlier building is Gothic. The artist Paul Troger from Welsberg was one of the most famous 18th century artists in all Austria. In 1737 he donated the three altar pictures to his home village. The Madonna enthroned with her child is attributed to Michael Pacher.

Tesido/Taisten

Parish church Hl. Ingenuin and AlbuinThis church is one of the most coherent structures of the late baroque period in the Pustertal valley. It was built around 1770 reutilising the late Gothic walls of a previous nave. Consequently fragments of frescos by the master Simon von Taisten have remained. The interior was decorated by Franz Anton Zeiller in 1768, while the St. Erasmus chapel contains tomb stones in memory of the Counts of Welsberg who are buried here. The adjacent chapel of St. Jacob is graced with murals by Simon von Taisten.

Church St. George
This church was first mentioned in 861 in connection with a court hearing. It is designed in two floors and remarkable for its Romanesque architecture, as well as for its frescos by the masters Leonhard from Brixen and Simon von Taisten, the latter a pupil of Michael Pacher’s.

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