Bozen has some lovely markets and buildings, pictured at left. Click on any of them and they will expand to full sized.
We bought lunch at a grocery store adjacent to the market, all at very reasonable prices: some speck (cured raw beef), various cheeses (brie, hard swiss, and brie with bleu mixed in), some calamari salad, marinaded artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, and a bottle of very good Valpolicella (local Italian red wine). The wine was only $2.50 US, and the brie was about $2.00 per pound! Then, to top it off, we bought fresh red raspberries at the market. It was a luch fit for a king!
Bozen is also famous for having the ancient mummy guy that was discovered in a glacier near here in '93. He was found with all of his clothing and implements intact and is estimated to have lived 5000 years ago. We didn't know this at the time, however, since our guidebook was older than that and we don't speak Italian to read signs. Such is life.
We did know about Castle Roncolo (the last picture), a medieval fortress just outside of town, so we headed up to see it. Of course, it was closed on Mondays (in keeping with a theme) and we just got to see the outside. But it was very interesting nonetheless, on a steep hillside with a huge moat and drawbridge (no water, though). I wouldn't attack it.
Of course, it started raining before we could eat lunch, and I mean POURING, so we headed out of town and up the mountain to try and find a dry spot to picknick. By the time we got to the very top and found nothing, we sort of figured that maybe we weren't going to find anything, so we ate in the car in the rain. It was a great picknick!