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Trentino-Alto Adige
Piazza Walther
The centre of town is Piazza Walther, whose pavement cafés, around its statue of the minnesinger (troubadour) Walther von der Vogelweide, are the town's favoured meeting places. Restaurants serve German specialties such as speck, gulasch and knödel, and bakers sell black bread and sachertorte. Converted into a cathedral as recently as 1964, the Duomo (Dom) sits on the edge of the square; built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and restored after being bombed in World War II, it has a striking mosaic roof and elaborately carved spire.