The smallest city in the alps
Perfectly preserved city walls, powerful
rampart towers, medieval alleys and porticoes in a picturesque landscape.
The fist mention of Glurns, at that time called "Glurnis", dates back to the year 1163. The former lords,
the counts of Tyrol, made the town the seat of the court in 1223, as an opposing pole to the bishopric of Chur.
Under Meinrad II. Glurns became the economic centre of the upper Vinschgau region. Later Glurns had a time of string economic growth. The end of this period of growth came with the Calvenschlacht of 1499. The city of Glurns was sacked and burned by the Engadines.
After this the new city walls with the gate towers and the circular bastions were built. They are still preserved today.
Various fires, floods and the transfer of the court seat made Glurns into a quiet town, and only in the Seventies was a plan worked out with the provincial government to bring new life back into this picturesque little city.
The fist mention of Glurns, at that time called "Glurnis", dates back to the year 1163. The former lords,
the counts of Tyrol, made the town the seat of the court in 1223, as an opposing pole to the bishopric of Chur.
Under Meinrad II. Glurns became the economic centre of the upper Vinschgau region. Later Glurns had a time of string economic growth. The end of this period of growth came with the Calvenschlacht of 1499. The city of Glurns was sacked and burned by the Engadines.
After this the new city walls with the gate towers and the circular bastions were built. They are still preserved today.
Various fires, floods and the transfer of the court seat made Glurns into a quiet town, and only in the Seventies was a plan worked out with the provincial government to bring new life back into this picturesque little city.
