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Trento
From Wikitravel
Trento, (English: Trent, German: Trient), is a bit of an upmarket town in the northeast of Italy. History made it a proud town, with a number of large manors outside of the town, where bishops used to come for holidays. Nowadays it is one of the most expensive towns in Italy, with the wealth from farming, wine, and high-tech industries. At Easter the fields around Trento are in bloom with apple blossoms.
The town centre is more or less a pedestrian area, and walking around the historic centre you can see a number of outdoor frescos on historic buildings. In the past the river Adige flowed right outside the centre where now Torre Verde is.
Apart from the council of Trento, which gathered in Trento in the sixteenth century for many periods of several years, which dominates the town centre, there is one other noteworthy historical event, related to Judaism. A little boy, named Simione, died about five hundred years ago. The event was blamed on the Jews, with stories of Pagan rituals. Fictional scenes are depicted on two plaqettes on via Roma. Therefore all Jewish men were killed, while women and children were expelled. The Jews put a ban on Trento in return. In the 1990's relations between Trento and the Jewish community improved when the Trentini stopped (officially) honouring Simione as a martyr, and the ban was lifted. A plaquette in a little alley off via Roma commemorates this occasion.
[edit] Get in
A22 / E45 highway connects Trento to Verona to the South, and Innsbruck via Bolzano/Bozen to the North.
SS47 highway connects Trento to Padova.
Main train line to Verona-Bologna and Brennero/Brenner-Munich. Secondary train lines to Padova and Venice.
[edit] Get around
The best way to visit the city is by feet or by bike. The city center is closed off to traffic and small and pleasant to walk. The beautiful mountains surrounding Trento can be reached easily using public transportation (the blue busses. The bus station is between the train station and the hostel).
[edit] By bicycle
Rental bike service companies, easy biking itineraries at Trento Region.
On recommend bike rides with specialized rental bike company, Mira, Venice,[1] this company can make Trentino easy biking tours with bike hire and guide services on the road with exclusive naturalistic, quitness sceneries and little traffic on the roads. Bike delivery at b&b, hotels and railway stations with a small fee. Free estimate costs from customer service.
[edit][add listing] See
Piazza Duomo
Castello del Buonconsiglio (with the renowned Torre Aquila)
[edit][add listing] Do
[edit][add listing] Buy
- Antiques, local traditional handicraft.
- Wines, grappe and spirits.
[edit][add listing] Eat
Trento offers a variety of restaurants of different price ranges. Inexpensive local fare can be eaten at Osteria Piedicastello, on the other side of the river (take the bridge over the railway line next to the hostel, walk to the roundabout, cross the river, descend to the small square on the right).
[edit][add listing] Drink
Trento is famous for its local wines, relatively unknown outside of Italy, including the Teroldego wine. There are numerous wine bars that sell wine and small plates of cheese / ham. One good wine bar is 'La Sgeva' in Via Brennero, just north of the city center.
'Il simposio' is popular with university students.
[edit][add listing] Sleep
The newly renovated Youth hostel is near the train station, towards the city center.
- America
- Accademia
- Grand Hotel Trento.
- Hotel Santoni, ☎ +39 0464 505966 (info@hotelsantoni.com), [2]. A hotel geared for sportsmen and women. edit
[edit] Get out
- Lavarone Lake
- Caldonazzo Lake
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