Gargazon

Gargazon (Gargazzone ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 15 km northwest of Bolzano.

Geography
As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 1,639 and an area of 4.9 km2.

Gargazon borders the following municipalities: Lana, Mölten, Nals, Burgstall, Terlan and Tisens.

Coat-of-arms
The emblem represents an argent tower on a gules hill with three fruit trees. The tower is the Kröllturm built in 1240 by Bartold von Trauston. The emblem was adopted in 1968.

Linguistic distribution
According to the 2011 census, 78.68% of the population speak German, 20.33% Italian and 0.99% Ladin as first language.