San Genesio, Jenesien (common name in Italian and German) is a mountain village and has a population of 2,942 inhabitants, is located 1,087 m above sea level and is 10 km from Bolzano. The municipality of San Genesio extends over 6,685 hectares.
These days we see the controversy between the Italian government and the autonomous province of Bolzano on the signage installed by Alpenverein (South Tyrolean Alpine Association). Almost all the new signs placed along the paths by the South Tyrol, which was responsible to carry out a renovation project funded at European level, are in fact only in German.
The found political solution is to replace the monolingual signs with bilingual signs on public land; as for remaining monolingual signs, President of the province Durnwalder said that in a reasonable time they will be replaced: the principle applies to municipalities, villages and signes for “malga” and lakes, but not for fractions, mountains and forests.