Marling, South Tyrol

Marling (Marlengo ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 25 km northwest of Bolzano.

Geography
As of the year 2017, it had a population of 2,710 and an area of 12.8 km2.

Marling borders the following municipalities: Tscherms, Algund, Lana, Merano and Partschins.

Coat-of-arms
The shield is argent a fess azure and a gules rampant lion. These are the arms of the Lords of Marling who lived in two castles in the village until 1426. The emblem was adopted in 1966.



Linguistic distribution
According to the 2011 census, 86.41% of the population speak German, 13.41% Italian and 0.17% Ladin as first language.