The beautiful Trento, a city located in the Adige valley, capital and major center of the province of the same name, a site with an ancient history as a Venetian, Etruscan, Gallic and Roman settlement on the slopes of three hills named Dosso Sant' Agata, Dosso di San Rocco and Doss Trent which originated the Latin name Tridentum in Imperial times.
You can start the visit from the beautiful Piazza Duomo, the heart and “historic living room” of the city where stands the Cathedral dedicated to San Vigilio, built starting from the 12th century by the architect Adamo D' Arogno despite being definitively finished in the 15th century on the remains of an early Christian Basilica dating back to the 6th century.
This stupendous Romanesque-Gothic masterpiece developed with three naves divided with beam columns, a protruding transept and a lantern boasts a wonderful façade with a Gothic rose window, a splendid portal and flanked by a 16th century bell tower with a concert of eight bells.
On the left side you can admire another portal with a porch and another rose window known as the "wheel of fortune".
You can visit the interior that houses the famous Crucifix where the fathers of the famous Council of Trent gathered around it, the relics of the venerated San Vigilio, the fresco of the Stories of San Giuliano made by Monte di Bologna, the baroque chapel of the Crucifix by Giuseppe Alberti dating back to 1682 and a canopy of the same style inspired by Bernini.
On the same square, on the eastern side, is Palazzo Pretorio, an extraordinary 13th century building in Gothic-Lombard style highlighted by a double order of mullioned windows and Ghibelline battlements.
Home to the Diocesan Museum which houses important works of art such as Flemish tapestries, paintings from various periods, wooden sculptures and a remarkable iconographic documentation concerning the Council of Trent.
Continuation along Via Belenzani where you will notice the presence of various buildings of Renaissance architectural matrix such as Palazzo Geremia, a masterpiece with mullioned windows and frescoes, the Old Town Hall which was the Belenzani residence, Palazzo Thun corresponding to the Town Hall, Palazzo Alberti – Colico frescoed by the master Falconetto and the beautiful Baroque Church of San Francesco Saverio.
In the nearby Via Manci you can have a stop in front of Palazzo Galasso, a 17th-century building designed by Bagnadore, a structure decorated with ashlar on the ground floor with a refined façade with a triple order of windows.
This building is called "Devil's Palace", a nickname linked to a legend that says it was the devil who built it with stones placed in a single night.
Continuation
with one of the architectural emblems of Trento, namely the wonderful
crenellated complex of the Buonconsiglio Castle.
Built in the first half of the 12th century next to the medieval city walls, at the beginning used as a fortified defensive stronghold and which for about five centuries was the residence of the Bishops of Trento as early as 13th century when they courted them.
Developed around the cylindrical keep on a building nucleus called Castelvecchio, between 1514 and 1539 Bishop Bernardo Cles decided to call various talented artists of that era who built his private residence called Palazzo Magno, of traditional Renaissance architectural canons.
The interior is sumptuously decorated with extraordinary ceilings, frescoes and wooden coffers and the successors of this ecclesiastical figure hosted in this space numerous important personalities, a place that became in its own way a sort of house for meetings and also used for lunches, dinners and banquets.
In 1686 the castle underwent some modifications ordered by the Prince-Bishop Alberti Poia, enlarging Palazzo Magno with the so-called Giunta Albertiana, a baroque hall with frescoed vaults and decorated with refined stuccoes.
The castle remained the local Bishopric until 1803, a period in which some changes began and after the cessation of the temporal power of the Episcopal Curia.
It had periods of decadence until it was used as a military quarter during the Habsburg era, becoming in the 20s after a radical restoration the seat of the National Museum while from 1992 it was used as a museum space for art collections.
You will then focus on the oldest section of the fortress, Castelvecchio, built in 1239 at the behest of the Podestà of Trento and transformed in the 15th century as the residence of Bishop Giorgio Liechtenstein.
Characterized by a traditional Venetian Gothic style adopted in 1475 at the behest of the Prince-Bishop Johannes Hinderbach, it boasts a beautiful courtyard adorned with loggias, was frescoed with various works in the 16th century and with some paintings executed by the master Fogolino dating back to 1535.
On the southern side of the castle you can stop in front of the Eagle Tower which houses a true Gothic masterpiece, a splendid cycle of frescoes depicting the twelve months attributed to Wenceslas of Bohemia who lived at the Bishop's court in the fifteenth century.
It’ time for your lunch and Trento offers a superb gastronomy, to taste and enjoy something of traditional you can have a choice of first courses between Ravioli with Melted Butter with Parmesan Cheese or Dumplings with Speck.
Suggested as second courses between Salted Meat with White Beans or Salmon Trout with Mixed Salad, many are the excellent wines in Trentino so you will have an ample selection to choose.
After your lunch take a look to Piazza Raffaello Sanzio where the 15thcentury Torre Verde stands, so called because of the color of the majolica that covers its wide spire.
This structure was part of a defensive wall whose remains are still visible and was used as a watchtower for trade to and from the Brenner.
Continue to the nearby Piazza Dante admiring the beautiful 13th century Church of San Lorenzo which was a wonderful Romanesque prototype with added Gothic elements.
It is a basilica that was part of the Abbey occupied by the Benedictine Order that suffered severe damage in the bombings of 1943 during the Second World War and largely rebuilt in 1955.
If you want to know more about Trento you can move towards the southern part of Trento to admire the beautiful Palazzo delle Albere, built in 1535 at the behest of Prince-Bishop Madruzzo as his peripheral residence, which now houses the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.
Developed on a quadrangular plan, the structure has four quadrangular towers erected at each cardinal point and preserves beautiful frescoes by the talented artist Fogolino.
Moving to the other side of the Adige river through the San Lorenzo Bridge you will reach the Church of Sant' Apollinare, a medieval building of Romanesque architectural origins renovated with a Gothic-Cistercian profile.
The interior is beautiful with splendid cross vaults, an important altarpiece of the late fifteenth century of the Germanic school and a fourteenth-century fresco depicting a Madonna and Child.
Trento is undoubedtly a magnificent city, visiting it will be a great experience, the charm of its historic core conquers all the visitors and you will keep very pleasant memories with the desire to come back in the future.
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