I Love Touring Italy – The Trentino Subregion

If you want a special European tourist destination, why not consider the region of Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy on the border of Switzerland and Austria? Its attractions are the Dolomite Mountains, the famous architect Le Corbusier called the most beautiful work architecture even seen, glaciers, lakes, and forests of the Alps. The region consists of two parts, in the south of Trentino Alto Adige and in the north. This paper presents Trentino, an accompanying article presents Alto Adige.

Well start our tour of Trento in Rovereto, near the border with Lombardy. We proceed northeast of local capital, Trento, and westward beyond the first village to eat with their hot springs and then past the typical village of Thyone Trentino. Here we return to northeast to end our tour at the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio. There is much more than skiing in the area, but his side of the border not far from Lombardy Switzerland.

The medieval city of Rovereto, population about 35 thousand, has had its share of war. In 1796 Napoleon won a bloody battle against Austria. Y in the First World War Italian and Austrian troops fought a bloody battle, inconclusive. Each nightfall to the thousands who died there are honest by La Campana dei Caduti (The Bell of the Fallen) that tolls 100 times in memory of the fallen of all wars as a warning to future peace. This bell, cast in 1924, is the largest bell ringing in the world that rings completely.

The Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (Italian Historical War Museum) was founded after of the First World War to commemorate the war and to prevent future wars. Situated in a medieval castle exemplifies XV century Venetian military architecture, with its tunnels, moats and towers. It is perhaps the greatest museum in the world against the war. An appendix shows the First World War artillery in a bomb shelter since. For a change of pace, visit MART, the Museum give Moderna e Contemporaneo (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art). The focus is on a local artist, Fortunato Depero, but the collection includes works by Picasso, Leger, Klee, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Modigliani and Warhol, among others.

Trento, population about one hundred thousand, if you add in the suburbs, the city is important Trentino. Its main historical claim to fame was the Council of Trent extends from 1545-1563 which marked the beginning of the Counter Reformation. The fight to join the Trento-Alto Adige in Italy was one of the main reasons for Italian participation in World War I

The Duomo (Cathedral of San Virgilio) is a XII-XIII century Romanesque-Gothic structure built on a sixth-century church dedicated to the patron City of San Virgilio. Whenever the Council of Trent came to a decision, which was read on the Crucifix Cappel (Chapel of the Cross), located inside the cathedral.

The Renaissance sixteenth-century Church of Santa Maria Maggiore organized several meetings of the Council of Trent. The courtyard of the building via Rosmini 18 contains the mosaic floor of a villa century AD Roman

The Castello del Buonconsiglio (Castle of Good Counsel) started in the Thirteenth Century next to the walls of the city. Over the centuries it grew. This castle includes the Provincial Museum give (Provincial Museum of Art). Be sure to see the frescoes and the famous fifteenth-century cycle of the months, portraying contemporary life in Trentino in the Tower Medieval Aquila (Eagle Tower) and the most recent (late sixteenth century) frescoes depicting scenes of hunting in the Torre del Falco (Falcon Tower).

Other places to see are several historic churches, the underground remains of Roman roads and villas, modernistic station, the Museo Storico in Trento (Trento Museum of History) foreseen before, if not already reopened, and the Museo Gianni Caproni dellAeronautica (Gianni Caproni Aeronautical Museum), located in the airport. As for the Mountain Film Festival.

Not far from Trento, especially if you're willing to drive on the roads of the Alps drivers competing against the Alps, are two large sites; the medieval spa town of Levico Terme and the Alpine Botanical Garden with over a thousand species of plants native to the Alps and other mountain ranges around the world. Madonna di Campiglio advertises itself as a number Italys ski resort. The clientele is mostly Italian and the tracks tend to be intermediate, but there are tracks for beginners and experts as well. The resort has 57 lifts and 150 kilometers (90 miles) of track with a capacity of more than thirty thousand skiers per hour. There are 40 kilometers (25 miles) cross country ski trails. You can go to downtown and back without removing their skis. For a change of pace, visit the nearby Adamello-Brenta Natural Park encompassing 450 kilometers (300 miles) of hiking trails, but you have to remove your skis for it. The resort recently hosted of the Snowboard World Championships. Head a little north of Campo Carlo Magno, a mountain pass that Charlemagne is said to have crossed on the way to his coronation as Back in Rome in 800.

Since you got here you should consider visiting two more sites, Bormio about sixty miles (one hundred kilometers) northwest Madonna di Campiglio and Passo dello Stelvio twelve miles (twenty kilometers) north of Bormio, south of the Swiss border. These sites are in the region of Lombardy far from towns and cities described in our articles of Lombardy. In short, Bormio has a lot of long tracks and a drop of one mile. You'll find Roman baths (frequented by none other than Leonardo da Vinci) and a spa. Bormio is a point at the largest national park in the Alps, Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio six hundred species of mushrooms. Passo dello Stelvio is the second highest European mountain pass.

What about food? Trentino kitchen has an accent Alpine real and includes plenty of butter, cheese, game and mushrooms, dozens of which can be found in local markets. The nearly three hundred lakes and rivers provide much fish. Expect to eat polenta, which can be made from potatoes or buckwheat, and normal maize. A major competitor for most oddly named Italys dish is strangolapreti (priest strangler). No record exists that priests really give up the ghost when faced with these spinach, egg, cheese and gnocchi, but the idea was that delicate throat Gnocchi couldnt manage these robust.

We will propose a tasting menu, one of the many. Start with Orzetto (Barley Soup ham). Then try to jog alla Trentina (trout marinated in lemon and wine sauce). For dessert indulge yourself with Zelten (wheat and dried fruit Cake nuts). Be sure to increase your dining pleasure by including local wines with your meal.

It concludes with a quick look at Trentino-Alto Adige wine. Trentino-Alto Adige ranks 16 among the 20 Italian regions of area devoted to grapes of wine and 14 for the total production of wine annually. The region produces about 55% 45% red and white wine. There are eight wines with which six are in Trentino (DOC wine is shared with other with Alto Adige Alto Adige and Veneto, with.) DOC means Title of origin, which can be translated as Denomination of Controlled Origin, presumably a high-quality wine. A whopping 79.1% of Trentino-Alto Adige wine carries the designation Doc, by far the highest percentage in Italy.

The Trentino DOC covers the entire province of Trento, providing more than twenty types of wine. The latest Trento-Alto Adige wine I tried was a Vino Novello (New Wine) that probably was not typical of Trento-Alto Adige, but the wine was typical of Vino Novello wine. The less said the better. There is actually a wine called Pinot Grigio Trentino Council (Council of Trent Pinot Gris), but I do not tried it.

About the Author

In his younger days Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten computer and Internet books. Now he prefers drinking fine Italian, German, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods and the right people. He knows what dieting is, and is glad that for the time being he can eat and drink what he wants, in moderation. He loves teaching various and sundry computer classes at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his new wine, diet, health, and nutrition website www.wineinyourdiet.com and his Italian wine website www.theitalianwineconnection.com.

Snowboard World Championships 2007 – Kazuhiro Kokubo