23 Sights in Trento, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Trento, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 23 sights are available in Trento, Italy.
Sightseeing Tours in Trento1. Forte Alto
The fortified complex of Mattarello is a set of three Austro-Hungarian fortifications that are part of the Fortress of Trento and are located in Mattarello, a fraction of the municipality of Trento. It belongs to the great system of Austrian fortifications on the Italian border and in particular to the complex system of fortifications of the southern front of the Fortress of Trento in the defense sector I. Together with the fort Romagnano served as a barrier of the Adige Valley from the south.
2. Palazzo delle Albere
Palazzo delle Albere is a Renaissance villa-fortress in Trento, northern Italy. It was built during the 16th century by the Madruzzo family of prince-bishops of Trento. It takes its name from the rows of poplars that once led to the castle; it is surrounded by a park, now smaller than once because it is crossed by the Brenner Railway and partly occupied by the Trento Monumental Cemetery. It has a square plan, with four square, 6 m-wide and 20 m tall corner towers, surrounded by a ditch.
3. Palazzo Geremia
Palazzo Geremia is a Renaissance building located in Trento, in via Rodolfo Bezenzani, built between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the 16th century at the behest of the Veronese merchant Giovanni Antonio Pona, called Jeremiah, bringing together more buildings on the previous era. Located in front of Palazzo Thun, home of the Town Hall of Trento, today it houses the meeting room of the city council and a exhibition room.
4. Torre del Massarello
Torre del Massarello, or Torre Massarelli, della Storta or more properly Torre arcidiaconale, is a medieval tower at the center of the fortified system in the district of Borgo Nuovo in Trento. The building was the residence of Archdeacon Martino Neideck and hosted Bishop Angelo Massarelli during the Council of Trent. It is located between Via Santa Trinità and Vicolo della Storta, in front of the Palazzo delle Poste.
5. Cattedrale di San Vigilio
The Cathedral of San Vigilio, generally known as the Cathedral of Trento, is the main place of worship in Trento, the capital of Trentino-Alto Adige. cathedral of the city and cathedral of the archdiocese of Trento, was elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius X on March 18, 1913 and was counted among the Italian national monuments by royal decree in 1940.
6. Santa Maria Maggiore
The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore is an important place of worship in the city of Trento, and the site of the Third Session of the Council of Trent. It was built by Antonio Medaglia on the model of the basilica of Sant'Andrea in Mantua, at the wish of the Prince-Archbishop Bernardo Clesio. In November 1973 Pope Paul VI accorded it the status of minor cathedral.
7. Monumento a Dante Alighieri
Il Monumento a Dante di Trentoßun gruppo scultoreo dedicato a Dante Alighieri, opera dell'artista fiorentino Cesare Zocchi, situato nel parco antistante la stazione ferroviaria. Fu realizzato come simbolo della lingua italiana e dell'italianità della città nel 1896 allorché il Trentino era territorio della Contea del Tirolo, nell'Impero austro-ungarico.
8. Ciclo dei mesi
The Cycle of the Months is a sequence of frescoes located in Trento, in the Torre dell'Aquila in the Buonconsiglio Castle, attributed to the master Wenceslas. They date back to the late fourteenth century-early fifteenth and are the best example of international Gothic in Trentino and one of the most significant in northern Italy.
9. Mausoleo di Cesare Battisti
The mausoleum of Cesare Battisti is located on the hill of Doss Trento, was designed by the architect Ettore Fagiuoli in 1935 and inaugurated on May 26 of that year – in the presence of Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy and Achille Starace, secretary of the PNF – with the translation of the Fallen from the cemetery of Trento.
10. Fontana del Nettuno
The fountain of Neptune is located in Piazza Duomo in Trento, where it was customary to install the "fire machine" for the feast of San Vigilio, and was built on a project by the sculptor Francesco Antonio Giongo di Lavarone between 1767 and 1769. For this fountain the sculptor designed a system of uninterrupted water flow.
11. Casa-torre Negri
The tower house Blacks, called Rella and in the eighteenth century called Piubellini, is a residential building of medieval plant with an elegant Renaissance façade. The house belonged to the Blacks family of San Pietro and is located in Trento in Via San Pietro outside the walls of the ancient city.
12. Museo Gianni Caproni
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.
13. MUSE
MUSE is the science museum of Trento. It is located south of the historic Palazzo delle Albere, in a building within the Le Albere residential district, both designed by Renzo Piano. It was inaugurated on 27 July 2013 and replaced, continuing its activities, the Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences.
14. Forte Bus de Vela - Straßensperre Bus de Vela
The Bus de Vela road cut, in German Straßensperre Bus de Vela and today popularly known as Cadine fort, is one of the Austro-Hungarian forts that is part of the Fortress of Trento. The fort is located in Cadine and belongs to the great system of Austrian fortifications on the Italian border.
15. Chiesa di Sant'Agata
The church of Sant'Agata, or church of Sant'Agata e Santa Lucia, is a church in the municipality of Trento, located on top of the Dosso Sant'Agata, above the hamlet of Povo; it is subsidiary of the church of Saints Peter and Andrew in Povo.
16. Batteria Roncogno
The Roncogno battery is one of the Austro-Hungarian fortresses belonging to the Fortress of Trento, near the town of Celva at the Cimirlo pass. The fort belongs to the great Austrian fortification system on the Italian border.
17. Forte Brusafer
The Brusafer battery or also known as the Brusaferro battery is an Austro-Hungarian fortification that is part of the Fortress of Trento. The fort belongs to the great Austrian fortification system on the Italian border.
18. Forte Casara
Fort Casara is one of the Austro-Hungarian forts belonging to the Fortress of Trento. The fort is located between Montevaccino and Cognola; It belongs to the great system of Austrian fortifications on the Italian border.
19. Abbazia di San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is a Roman Catholic church in Trento, Italy. Already belonging to the Order of St. Benedict and then to the Order of Friars Preachers, it is usually governed by a friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
20. Case Rella e Cazuffi
The city of Trento is home to several buildings with painted facades. The use of decorating the facades in the city took inspiration from what happened in Veneto especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
21. Torre Vanga
Torre Vanga is a historic building in Trento built in 1210 and now owned by the Autonomous Province of Trento. It is one of the most significant medieval monuments of the city and is located in Via Prepositura.
22. Palazzo Trentini
Palazzo Trentini is a palace located in Trento, in via Manci, built in the mid-eighteenth century by the family of the barons Trentini. The building houses the Council of the Autonomous Province of Trento.
23. Palazzo Arcivescovile
Palazzo Arcivescovile, also known as Palazzo della Curia or Palazzo Ceschi, since 1922 has been the seat of the curia and the residence of the Archbishop of Trento. It dates back to the sixteenth century.
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