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In and around Trento

Surrounded by mountains, Trento lies in the centre of a tourist district where nature, history, art and culture intermingle creating a pleasant reality. It is easy to reach the peaks and plains around Trento by the Brenner motorway, road or rail, which ensure rapid and easy connections with the whole of Italy and Europe.
Some twenty kilometres north of Trento you come to Salorno, a town on the borders of the South Tyrol and the Germanic world. Just as far to the south is Rovereto, a small town of ancient and traditional cultural vitality, strongly influenced by the Veneto culture.
The pulsing heart of Trento is the historic centre with its ancient walls and stately buildings, towers and churches testifying the long history of this "spledidum municipium" mentioned in an edit by Emperor Claudius in 46 A.D..
Symbol and synthesis of the life and history of Trento is Buonconsiglio Castle, the seat of the Bishops, the spiritual and temporal rulers of the Trentino Principality. From the castle, now a frequently visited museum, you can wander through the streets of frescoed buildings to the beautiful Cathedral square as the Prince Bishops did when they left their stately home to go and pray in the Cathedral, one of the most important monuments in the Alpine area, a masterpiece designed and built by Adamo d'Arogno of Como, dating back to the early 1200s.
Between these two centres, Buonconsiglio Castle and the Cathedral, the life of the town and Trentino has been acted out through the centuries. The area lept into the limelight and was written in the pages of history in the l500s when the Christian world was called to Trento for the Council, the prologue of the Counter Reformation.
450 years have passed since then and Trento is still the emblematic town of that period and of a culture derived from Mediterranean and northern influences.

A.P.T. DI TRENTO

38100 Trento - Via Alfieri, 4
Tel. 0461/983880
Fax 0461/984508
Telex 400289 TURISM I

38040 Vaneze di Monte Bondone*
Tel. 0461/947128
Fax 0461/947188

CONSORZIO PRO LOCO "TRE CIME MONTE BONDONE"
38060 Garniga Terme Loc. Piazza
Tel. 0461/842586
Fax 0461/843098

* Open in the tourist season

Piana Rotaliana

Going north from Trento, a wide plain lined with gently sloping vineyards comes in sight. This is the Piana Rotaliana, defined by oenologists as the most beautiful garden of vines in Europe. The area lies at the mouth of Valle di Non between the villages of Mezzolombardo, Mezzocorona and San Michele all'Adige where most of the Trentino DOC wines are produced, the most renowned being Teroldego Rotaliano.
The tradition, welfare and typicalness of this area lies in the cultivation of vines. The grape growers have been working for years towards an exclusively high quality production and they look after the thousands of rows of Trentino trellised vines with professional and dedicated ability, waiting year after year for the ancient farming ritual of grape harvesting and wine making. e cooperatives and wineries use millions of kilos of green and black grapes producing a valuable distribution of wines, grappas and spumantes, the best messengers and symbols of Trentino.The luxuriant Piana Rotaliana, formed by the millenial flow of glaciers that created Valle dell'Adige, owes its oenological fortune to the features of the soil, mainly morainal, from which the vines draw their special sap of life. On the edge of this huge district, that becomes an impressive garden in spring, lies the experimental Agricultural Institute in the village of San Michele all'Adige. This institute is a university of oenology in which advanced cultivation techniques are experimented and perfected providing an indispensable support in the constant search for quality.
Not far from this university of oenology, in an ancient Augustinian convent, the Museum of Uses and Customs of the Trentino People proposes an interesting tour among objects, tools and implements, situations and records of traditions and life that are disappearing.

Associazioni Pro Loco

38010 Faedo - Tel. 0461/650133
38015 Lavis
38016 Mezzocorona
38017 Mezzolombardo - Tel. 0461/602648
38010 S.Michele all'Adige

Valle di Fiemme

The kingdom of meadows and woods, 35 kilometres long and surrounded by the Lagorai and Latemar mountain ranges, Valle di Fiemme has become one of the major tourist resorts of Trentino with a wide variety of accommodation from four star hotels to comfortable family apartments in small villages. The valley's capital is Cavalese, the ancient administrative centre with the Magnificent Community Palazzo where the local community rules of self government were established in the Middle Ages and are still of vital importance in the management of an immense woodland heritage.
Among the trees in the Pieve Park, in Cavalese, you can find the "Banc de la reson", a circular stone construction where, in the equivalent of the current parliament, the elected representatives of the rules, inspired by Longobard law, used to sit and debate matters concerning the Magnificent Community. This form of self government was so elaborate and valid that it was also recognised and accepted by the Prince Bishops of Trento during their reign.
The inhabitants of Valle di Fiemme have defended their rules for centuries from Tyrolean and French invasions, fully aware of their importance and value.
Cavalese and Predazzo, the chief centres of Fiemme, have become renowned resorts in recent years, but many other smaller centres have by no means lagged behind. All of them are able to provide first class accommodation coupled with a cordiality and candour typical of these mountain people.
Fiemme is also the cradle of great cross country skiing champions, from Franco Nones, gold medallist in the Grenoble Olympics, to Giorgio and Bice Vanzetta, medallists in the Lillehammer Winter Games. This sport became known to Italians right here and its tradition is kept alive by the Fiemme and Fassa Marcialonga. This fantastic ski race with about 6 thousand starters, who compete over 70 kilometres finishing in Cavalese, is held every winter on the last Sunday in January.

A.P.T. VALLE DI FIEMME

38033 Cavalese - Tel. 0462/241111 - Fax 0462/230649
38037 Predazzo - Tel. 0462/501237 - Fax 0462/502093
38038 Tesero - Tel. 0462/241140
38030 Varena - Tel. 0462/241145
38030 Ziano di Fiemme - Tel. 0462/502890
38030 Bellamonte* - Tel. 0462/576047
38030 Capriana* - Tel. 0462/816097
38033 Carano* - Tel. 0462/241160
38030 Castello di Fiemme* - Tel. 0462/241150
38030 Daiano* - Tel. 0462/241165
38030 Molina di Fiemme* - Tel. 0462/241155
38030 Panchia* - Tel. 0462/241170
38040 Valfloriana* - Tel. 0462/241111

* Open in the tourist season

Valle di Fassa

Every day a magical atmosphere surrounds everyone and everything among these mountains. As day turns into night, or darkness clashes with daylight, when the sun's rays slide obliquely on the horizon, the Dolomite mountains are white at dawn and tinged fiery red at sunset. This is the eternal and always new spectacle of the Enrosadira, a prerogative of these mountains certainly among the most beautiful in the world.
Valle di Fassa means the Dolomites: from Marmolada, the Queen of the Group, to Catinaccio, the elected and legendary home of King Laurino, and Sassolungo, just to name the most important ones. Magical mountains mentioned in many legends still narrated to children today when they can be enticed from the TV. Mountains inhabited by the Ladins, that proud population who have been the owners of the Dolomites for two thousand years and are now an ethnic minority whose language, culture and traditions are protected.
The Monti Pallidi, that rose out of the sea 250 million years ago and were turned into the most beautiful constructions in the world by the ice and wind (so the architect Le Corbusier described them), have brought development and prosperity to the Fassa population and the side valleys radically altering their destiny.
At a time when the mountains are being rediscovered, together with the concept of cleanness and conservation, the Dolomites continue to represent the maximum for anyone who wants an alpine holiday.
This is the basis of reasoning behind Valle di Fassa's vertiginous tourist development in the last decade, where half a million holidaymakers spend 4 million days per year. In a dozen or so villages, of which the largest are Moena and Canazei, modern accommodation structures and facilities have had a decided effect on the market, together with a very varied offer.
The countryside, environment and nature head the list of preferences among visitors. However, after an outing, it is undoubtedly worth visiting the Ladin Museum in Vigo di 1 assa in which records and objects of the life and culture of the Ladin Dolomite population are arranged in various sections.
The Museum represents and preserves a heritage of history and values that has remained unaltered in the course of the centuries.

A.P.T. VALLE DI FASSA

38032 Canazei - Via Costa 79 - Tel. 0462/602466-602594 - Fax 0462/602278
38032 Canazei - Tel. 0462/601113-601145 - Fax 0462/602502
38035 Moena - Tel. 0462/573122-573340 - Fax 0462/574342
38036 Pozza di Fassa - Tel 0462/764136-764117 - fax 0462/763717
38069 Vigo di Fassa - Tel. 0462/764093-94 - Fax 0462/764877
38030 Alba* - Tel 0462/601354
38031 Campitello di Fassa* - Tel. 0462/750500 - Fax 0462/750219
31031 Mazzin* - Tel 0462/767196
38030 Soraga* - Tel. 0462/768114

* Open in the tourist season

Valli del Primero and Vanoi

San Martino di Castrozza, at the foot of the mythical Pale peaks, and Primiero, on the eastern edge of Trentino, are a gateway to the Veneto region with which they have been in contact for centuries, as may be found in the mentality and language, besides the uses and customs. Primiero lies in a large hollow of meadows, surrounded by mountains and the Dolomites, clustered with villages of ancient history and traditions, crossed by wayfarers and merchants heading for the strategic Rolle Pass into Valle di Fiemme since ancient times.
In the nineteenth century sovereigns, mountaineers and explorers were drawn here, attracted by the Pale peaks. San Martino di Castrozza soon became a renowned tourist resort lying "in the most superb amphitheatre of the Dolomite Alps" as Cesare Battisti wrote.
Valleys, peaks, meadows and endless forests with their wild beauty are almost all inside the Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Nature Park, a natural oasis where flora and fauna enjoy the greatest possible protection. The gentle nature of the Primiero and Val Canali meadow lands, another corner of rare beauty dear to Dino Buzzati, is interrupted by the immense rock bastions and spurs of the Pale and its most famous peaks, Sass Maor, Velo della Madonna, Cimon della Pala.
A thousand jagged mountain pinnacles and peaks, with seemingly endless forests at their feet, magnificent altogether and even magical when, in the evening, with the "enrosadira", they turn a fiery red as the sun sinks on the horizon.
The Venetians of the seafaring Serenissima Republic came to these woods to choose the best trunks to use in the construction of their ships destined to sail the seas throughout the world. In 1700, the violin-maker Stradivari used to go into the socalled Forest of Violins, not far from Paneveggio, to choose the spruce that would give his violins the finest tone.
Talking of illustrious personalities, one should not forget Luigi Negrelli, a native of Primiero and the engineer and inventor of the Suez Canal, who designed the road and railway network across the whole of the Alps.

A.P.T. S.MARTINO DI CASTROZZA E PRIMIERO

38058 S.Martino di Castrozza - Tel. 0439/768867 - Fax 0439/768814
38054 Fiera di Primiero - Tel. 0439/62407-62985 - Fax 0439/62992
38050 Imer* - Tel. 0439/67023
38050 Mezzano di Primiero* - Tel. 0439/67032
38050 Siror* - Tel. 0439/762124
38054 Transacqua* - Tel. 0439/64775

CONSORZIO PRO LOCO "VALLE DEL VANOI"
38050 Canal S.Bovo - Tel. e Fax 0439/719041

ASSOCIAZIONI PRO LOCO:
38050 Sagron Mis

* Open in the tourist season

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