St. Pankraz



St. Pankraz (San Pancrazio ) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 km northwest of the city of Bolzano.

Geography
As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 1,589 and an area of 63.1 km2.

Sankt Pankraz borders the following municipalities: Lana, Laurein, Naturns, Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix, Tisens, Ulten, and Castelfondo.

Coat-of-arms
The emblem represents a tower with battlements, with a pavilion azure roof, surrounded by a wall above a vert hill with two fir-trees on each side on argent. The castle tower corresponds to the Eschenloch Castle built in the twelfth century by the Counts of Ulten. The emblem was adopted in 1968.

Linguistic distribution
According to the 2011 census, 98.84% of the population spoke German, 0.96% Italian and 0.19% Ladin as their first language.

Personalities

 * Blasius Marsoner (1924–1991), poet, historian and translator of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri