Hotel and hiking route signposts in rural South Tyrol, south-west of Bolzano, northern Italy. South Tyrol is the northernmost region in Italy, bordering Austria to the north and northeast, Switzerland to the northwest, and the rest of Italy to the south. This is also the only region in Italy where the majority of the population speaks German as their mother tongue and so it's officially bi-lingual, including all road signs, menus and media, and moreover even trilingual in the scenic eastern Ladin speaking valleys.