Taisten
Taisten (dialect the Taisten ; Italian Tesido ) is a village in the east of South Tyrol and a fraction of the municipality Welsberg-Taisten . The village is located at an altitude of about 1200 m above the confluence of the Gsies valley and the Pustertal valley . The village, which has over 1200 inhabitants, extends on a south-facing sloping terrace. Taisten houses several buildings of art-historical value (such as the churches of St. Georg or St. Ingenuin and Albuin ), some of which are decorated with paintings by the late Gothic master Simon von Taisten .
literature
- Johannes Baur: Contributions to local history by Taisten , Wagner, 1969 (online)
Web links
Commons : Taisten - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Taisten on pustertal.org
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ' N , 12 ° 7' E