During their first trip to Italy (21-23 December 1769), en route to Milan, Mozart and his father stopped in Bolzano for two nights. Their hectic schedule included invitations by the violinist Anton Kurzweil, the Stockhammer family, who entertained them "in a very costly way", and Anton von Gummer, am member of the financial aristocracy of Bolzano.

On the way from Salzburg to Milan, during the second Italian trip (16 August 1771), they again stopped in Bolzano. Finally, on the third trip to Italy (28/28 October 1772), Leopold and Wolfgang again stopped here, and visited Father Vicenz Ranftl in the Dominican Monastery.

Bolzano, the only city in the world with both a competition in honour of F. Busoni and a house where Mozart slept. An elegant salon where different people meet, an exchange of cultures, music, and performances.

The central Piazza Walther named for the troubadour Walther von der Vogelweide, one street named for Dante and another for Goethe; a conservatory carrying the name of Monteverdi an Orchestra of Haydn. A trilingual University, and an Academy of Design and a Film School both bilingual. This is what makes Bolzano a little big capital of European atmosphere!

The "Istituto musicale in lingua intaliana A. Vivaldi di Bolzano" is the official representative for Bozen in the association.