Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Trento, Italy

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 4.4 km
Ascend 146 m
Descend 72 m

Explore Trento in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in TrentoIndividual Sights in Trento

Sight 1: Casa-torre Negri

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The Torre Negri house, called Rella and in the eighteenth century called the Piubellini, is a residential building of medieval plant with an elegant Renaissance prospectus. The house belonged to the Negri family of San Pietro and stands in Trento in via San Pietro outside the walls of the ancient city.

Wikipedia: Torre Negri (IT)

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Teatro Sociale

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The social theater is a historic theater of the city of Trento, located inside the palace of Count Tommaso Festi.

Wikipedia: Teatro Sociale (Trento) (IT), Website, Operator Website

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Palazzo Salvadori

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Palazzo Salvadori is a palazzo in Trento, northern Italy, one of the first examples of Renaissance civil architecture in the city, and a symbol of antisemitism.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Salvadori, Trento (EN)

234 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Palazzo Fugger Galasso

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Palazzo Fugger-Galasso, also known by the nickname of Palazzo del Diavolo, is a monumental building located in the historic center of Trento.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Fugger-Galasso (IT)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Monumento a Dante Alighieri

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The Monument to Dante in Trento is a sculptural group dedicated to Dante Alighieri, the work of the Florentine artist Cesare Zocchi, located in the park in front of the railway station. It was built as a symbol of the Italian language and the Italian character of the city in 1896 when Trentino was part of the County of Tyrol, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Dante a Trento (IT)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Abbazia di San Lorenzo

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The church of San Lorenzo is a Roman Catholic church located in Trento, Italy. Formerly 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.

Wikipedia: Abbazia di San Lorenzo (Trento) (IT)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: chiesa di San Francesco Saverio

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The church of San Francesco Saverio is a Catholic church located in the historic center of the city of Trento.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Francesco Saverio (Trento) (IT)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Galleria Civica

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The Civic Gallery of Trento is a museum of contemporary art located in Trento, via Rodolfo Belenzani, 44. Established in 1989 under the name "Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art", in 2013 it became part of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. The president of the Museum is Vittorio Sgarbi, the director is Diego Ferretti, the head of the Civic Gallery is Margherita de Pilati.

Wikipedia: Galleria civica di Trento (IT), Website

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Fontana del Nettuno

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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 to a design by the sculptor Francesco Antonio Giongo di Lavarone between 1767 and 1769. For this fountain, the sculptor devised a system of uninterrupted water flow.

Wikipedia: Fontana del Nettuno (Trento) (IT)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Palazzo Pretorio

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Palazzo Pretorio or Palazzo Vescovile is a building in Trento, located in Piazza Duomo and now home to the Tridentine Diocesan Museum.

Wikipedia: Palazzo Pretorio (Trento) (IT), Website

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Torre Civica

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The Torre Civica, also known as Torre di Piazza, is a historic building in Trento, Italy.

Wikipedia: Torre Civica (Trento) (IT)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Cattedrale di San Vigilio

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The cathedral of San Vigilio, or the cathedral of Trento, is the main church of the city. It is the cathedral of the Tridentine Archdiocese, and was elevated to the rank of minor basilica by Pope Pius X on March 18, 1913 and counted among the Italian national monuments by royal decree in 1940.

Wikipedia: Cattedrale di San Vigilio (IT)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Palazzo Balduini

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Casa Balduini is a building that overlooks the western side of Piazza Duomo in Trento. It was built in the fourteenth century and has the oldest external decoration in the city.

Wikipedia: Casa Balduini (IT)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Santa Maria Maggiore

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Maggiore, Trento (EN)

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Torre Vanga

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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.

Wikipedia: Torre Vanga (IT)

633 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: chiesa di Sant'Apollinare

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The church of Sant'Apollinare is located in the Piedicastello district of the city of Trento.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Apollinare (Trento) (IT)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Le Gallerie

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The Galleries of Piedicastello are a museum space in Trento, managed by the Historical Museum of Trentino.

Wikipedia: Gallerie di Piedicastello (IT), Website

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Mausoleo di Cesare Battisti

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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.

Wikipedia: Mausoleo di Cesare Battisti (IT)

999 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 19: Museo nazionale storico degli Alpini

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The National Historical Museum of the Alpini is an Italian structure, created with the aim of collecting most of the history of the military corps of the Alpini.

Wikipedia: Museo nazionale storico degli Alpini (IT), Website

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