Woman walks uphill on a quiet, rural road in northern Italy, South Tyrol. Making her way up towards a country hotel called Steinegger in a hamlet also of that name, the lady passes lines of apples on both sides of the road. The area produces 900,000 tons of apples per year on a fruit-growing area of 18,400 hectares. The Überetsch (Oltradige in Italian) is a hilly section of the Etschtal in South Tyrol, northern Italy. It lies south-west of Bolzano and is a known tourist destination, famous for its wines, castles and lakes (Kalterer See, Montiggler Seen). The municipalities of the Überetsch are Kaltern and Eppan.