Guided tour Sports & freetime

On Sigmund Freud's tracks

About the event

Guided walking with the expert Francesco Marchioro along the Freudpromenade. Each walking tour has its own theme

Freud Meeting with Francesco Marchioro, expert and historian of psychoanalysis, followed by a walk along the Freudpromenade.

Meeting point: Rittner Bahn/Train stop Lichtenstern at 10.45 a.m. (at 10.45 a.m. train from Klobenstein or Oberbozen). Costs: € 15, free with RittenCard.

Program 2026:

Friday, June 19: Freud: “Here on the Ritten it is divinely charming and comfortable” (1911),

Thursday, July 9: Freud, Art, and the Vienna Secession,

Thursday, August 6: Anna Freud and Marilyn Monroe (1926–2026),

Thursday, July 23: Freud meets Rilke (1926–2026),

Thursday, August 20: Freud and the City of Vienna,

Thursday, September 3: Freud: “Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety” (1926–2026),

Thursday, October 8: Anna Freud “The Earth Pyramids, really splendid”.

Registration within the day before, 5 p.m. at tourist office Ritten/Renon.

"I need a place where I can be alone with a forest nearby..."

Letter of Freud to Jung (February 1911).

And how did this link between the ideal place for Bolzano residents to go for a bit of 'Sommerfrische', or summer cool, and the genius tourist Sigmund Freud come about? In a letter dating February 1911, he reveals to Carl Gustav Jung «Next summer. I need a place where I can be alone with a forest nearby».

So, before Easter, on Friday, the 14th of April, he leaves Vienna in the company of his friend and pupil Sandor Ferenczi and makes a quick tour lasting just six days to find a suitable place around Trento and Bolzano. He returns to Vienna the following Thursday and his research produces excellent results in the form of Ritten/Renon near Bolzano. Consequently, on the 9th of July, Freud sets off from Karlsbad, where he was staying to recover from a bout of 'American colitis', and joins his family at Klobenstein. This is where the Freuds celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, on 14th September - the enjoyment of their holiday thus being enhanced by love and affection. During his holiday at Ritten/Renon begun Freud to write the work? Totem and taboo