Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is a region of northern Italy. The two main cities are Bolzano (Bozen) and Trento. The region is divided into two provinces: Bolzano-Bozen (in the north, with the city of Bolzano (Bozen) as the capital) and Trento (in the south, with the city of Trento as capital).

The province of Bolzano-Bozen wanted more autonomy, because the main German-speaking community of Italy lives there.   In the province of Trento, the people speak Italian.   It has 339 official towns.

The most important cities are:

Province of Trento (Trentino): Trento and Rovereto 
Province of Bolzano-Bozen (Alto Adige/Südtirol): Bolzano (Bozen), Merano (Meran) 

The two main groups are German in ALTO ADIGE(where live also Italian-speaking) and Italian (they live in the Trento province as majority and ALTO ADIGE in the principal cities), but a minority group called the Ladins lives in the Dolomites region: they speak an old Rheto-romanic language.   Words and ways of talking in this area are spread in the valleys around the Dolomites mountain group: Gardena, Badia Mareo Valley (ALTO ADIGE)and Fassa Valley (Trentino).   Ladin is also spoken in the town of Cortina d'Ampezzo and areas around there.  The Ladin language of the Fassa Valley, Ladin is more like italian: the Ladins of this valley speak a language with a lot of Italian or Trentino style sentences.