The size of the entire cultivation area for South Tyrolean Apples,
18,000 hectares to be exact, is three and a half times the size of Bolzano/Bozen, South Tyrol's capital city, or 25.210 football fields. Conditions for
apple cultivation are particularly good in the Alps. Farmer’s apple orchards extend from Salorno/Salurn in the south through the Etschtal valley and the low mountain range hills of Burggrafenamt/Burgraviato to the Vinschgau valley. The Südtiroler Apfel PGI is also at home further east in the Eisacktal valley near Brixen/Bressanone.
The fact that apple growing is so important in South Tyrol is not only due to its good taste, but also to the
6,000 hard-working South Tyrolean fruit growers, most of whom cultivate quite small farms of around three hectares, often extending over several quite separate plots of land, so that every
apple variety can grow in South Tyrol at the altitude to which it is best suited.