Casanova in Bolzano

At midnight on October 31, 1756, Giacomo Casanova--yes, that Casanova--escaped from a Venetian prison with help from a defrocked friar named Balbi. But instead of continuing to Munich, as his memoirs record, he stopped at an inn called The Stag in the Italian village of Bolzano. There he rested, secured a loan from a friend, and resumed his old life of seduction and debachery.