The entry form asks for the city and country.
Looks like Innsbruck, Austria. You can research further, but here are a couple of things:
Clue:
Speaking of spans, the name of the provincial capital you are in refers to an ancient bridge over a strategic river...
From Wikipedia:
Innsbruck is the capital city of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn Valley at the junction with the Wipptal (Sill River), which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck. Located in the broad valley between high mountains, the Nordkette (Hafelekar, 2,334 m) in the north, Patscherkofel (2,246 m) and Serles (2,718 m) in the south, it is an internationally renowned winter sports centre, and hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics. The word bruck comes from the German word Brücke meaning "bridge" which leads to "the bridge over the Inn".
Clue:
Perhaps his celestial prose in turn inspired the physicist who set up an observatory on a peak here in the 1930s to study cosmic rays (and later basked in his Nobel Prize).
From this link:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1936/Victor Franz Hess shared the Nobel Prize for research on cosmic rays.
